News tagged with sodium chloride

Road runoff spurring spotted salamander evolution

Spotted salamanders exposed to contaminated roadside ponds are adapting to their toxic environments, according to a Yale paper in Scientific Reports. This study provides the first documented evidence that a vertebrate has ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Humans unequipped for high-salt diet, food scientist contends

Humans are physiologically unprepared for the amount of sodium found in manufactured foods in the modern food supply, contributing to the diet-related diseases observed today.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 7

Chemical imaging of individual salt particles advances aerosol research

Scientists recently combined experimental approaches and molecular dynamics modeling to gain new insights into the internal structure of sea salt particles and relate it to their fundamental chemical reactivity in the atmosphere. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

70 percent of 8-month-olds consume too much salt

Seventy per cent of eight-month-old babies have a salt (sodium chloride) intake higher than the recommended UK maximum level, due to being fed salty and processed foods like yeast extract, gravy, baked beans and tinned spaghetti.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Adrenaline use in cardiac arrest

Adrenaline has kept its place in cardiac arrest guidelines despite limited evidence for or against its use. The PACA (Placebo versus Adrenaline versus Cardiac Arrest) study by Jacobs and colleagues, soon to be published in ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Salt diet dangers may be influenced by potassium

The debate about the dangers of eating too much salt has gained a new wrinkle: A federal study suggests that the people most at risk are those who also get too little potassium.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Diplomat says minuscule fallout reaches Calif.

(AP) -- The first radioactive fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear plant reached Southern California early Friday, but the readings indicate levels far below a level that could endanger people, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Getting salty: Can beet juice, other alternatives help to keep the nation's highways ice-free?

While beautiful to look at, snow turns roadways into skating rinks. Coming to the rescue is the humble sodium chloride, also known as salt, which is far and away the simplest and most frequently used deicing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Novel drug offers hope for early intervention in cystic fibrosis patients

Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with normal to mildly impaired lung function may benefit from a new investigational drug designed to help prevent formation of the sticky mucus that is a hallmark of the disease, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cystic fibrosis gene typo is a double whammy

An imbalance of salt and water in patients with cystic fibrosis makes their lungs clog up with sticky mucus that is prone to infection. The cause of the offending imbalance is a well-known genetic error, one that blocks the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The power of planar: Flat sodium-nickel chloride battery could improve performance, cost of energy storage

A redesign of sodium-nickel chloride batteries promises to overcome some of the obstacles long associated with rechargeable batteries.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Small fraction of Americans meet salt guidelines

(AP) -- Most U.S. adults should eat less than a teaspoon of salt each day, but a new government report says just 1 in 18 meet that goal.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Atmosphere of Io

(PhysOrg.com) -- Io is one of the four moons of Jupiter that Galileo discovered after he turned his new telescope heavenward. They shocked him and his contemporaries because they demonstrated that heavenly ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Tracking down rust

(PhysOrg.com) -- Damage to concrete bridges caused by rust can have fatal consequences, at worst leading to a total collapse. Now, researchers have developed an early-warning system for rust. Sensor-transponders ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland

The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast. Wind and waves kick up spray, and bits of sodium chloride - common table salt - can permeate the air.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, also known as common salt, table salt, or halite, is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt, it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative.

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