salts

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It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Instead of relying on harsh chemicals, it starts with solid materials called MAX phases and uses molten salts along with iodine vapor to form MXene sheets.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

When exposed only to perchlorate salts, the cells formed P-bodies.

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

In the case of springs rich in mineral salts, the cures are easily explained: the salts would help to clean and dry up skin infections.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz