salts

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It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Despite the harsh conditions, the yeast cells remained alive after exposure to shock waves, perchlorate salts, and even both stressors combined.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Meg’s jam refuses to gel, Jo salts instead of sugars the strawberries, ambition and reality collide, humiliation stings but eventually becomes something to laugh about.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

When the precursors were treated with fluoride salts, cubene or quadricyclene formed inside the reaction vessel.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Just as water evaporating in a glass leaves behind a film of salts and minerals, water evaporating from irrigation channels leaves deposits in the soil.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann