salts

Example Sentences

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It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 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

This radiation reacts with salts and other materials on the moon's surface, producing compounds that could serve as nutrients for microbes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

The crystals are made of mineral salts, and they looked evilly sharp.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston