salts
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The Seahawks, defending Super Bowl champions, got a collective whiff of smelling salts before Sunday’s game, having suffered an embarrassing loss at Washington a week earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
As the skipper of the 40-foot sloop First Light, Ms. Brauer had at her fingertips resources that would have amazed the salts of yore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
These salts perform two jobs at once, acting as both the reaction medium and the catalyst that drives the chemical conversion.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
They said these often contained heavy metal salts or nitrosamines that can leach into the environment once the balloon degrades.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
She passed some smelling salts under the old lady’s nose, making her flinch and moan, but she didn’t wake up.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
