everyone says that the taste of salt is indescribable. I disagree. Can any of you descibe the taste of salt?
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salt is a flavor enhancer. whatever you put it on it brings out the flavor. salt by itself tastes terrible
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yeah sort of like skittles, you know taste the rainbow?\nOkay yeah that was a  pretty tasteless answer but I couldnt think of anything witty to say.\n\nTruth be known we probably all taste the same? I dont know would you like to test that theory on me ( wink wink nudge nudge) lol
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Salt IS a chemical compound. It doens't HAVE chemical compounds.\n\nThe question makes no sense whatsoever. Someone is trying to fool you.
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Once again we see the rush of answers from people who have no idea. Not just misinformed, but with no knowledge of the subject.\n\nSweat contains salts because they raise the sweat to absorb more heat before it evaporates. And when it evaporates it takes all that heat with it. That makes salt water a far more efficient cooling mechanism than just pure water.\n\n\n>>> Because we expell most of the sodium in our bodies >>>through our sweat glands.\n\nWhat nonsense. Have you ever heard of kidneys? They are how the body expels excess sodium.  Jeepers, if we relied in sweating to regulate sodium levels everyone would die on a cold winter's day.\n\n\n>>>>It also serves to excrete and eliminate some of the \n>>>> unwanted wastes from your body, along with the moisture \n>>>>- and these wastes are salty !\n\nUnless you have been drinking EXTREMELY heavily or have some nasty disease the amount of 'waste' excreted through sweat is almost immeasurable. And almost none of that is salt. If the only salt in sweat was from excreted wastes it would be less salty than tap water.\n\n______\n>>>>Actually, sweat is salty because life originates from >>>>Earth's oceans. \n\n\nWe know that is nonsense because most mammals produce sweat that is far less saline than human sweat. If your theory were correct all mammals would have sweat of exactly the same salinity since allmamals have exactly the same common marine ancestor.\n\n>>>>If heat transfer were the only mechanism by which salty >>>>sweat were naturally selected, then the salinity of >>>>sweat might be much higher.\n\n\nIt might be bright pink too, but it isn't. Salt is a limiting resource in its own right on the savannas of Africa. Their is a limit to how much can be expended seating without leading to death.\n\nHowever the question asked why sweat is salty, not why it isn't saltier.
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Why is the Ocean Salty?\n\nAll water, even rain water, contains dissolved chemicals which scientists call "salts." But not all water tastes salty. Water is fresh or salty according to individual judgment, and in making this decision man is more convinced by his sense of taste than by a laboratory test. It is one's taste buds that accept one water and reject another.\nA simple experiment illustrates this. Fill three glasses with water from the kitchen faucet. Drink from one and it tastes fresh even though some dissolved salts are naturally present. Add a pinch of table salt to the second, and the water may taste fresh or slightly salty depending on a personal taste threshold and on the amount of salt held in a "pinch." But add a teaspoon of salt to the third and your taste buds vehemently protest that this water is too salty to drink; this glass of water has about the same salt content as a glass of sea water.\nObviously, the ocean, in contrast to the water we use daily, contains unacceptable amounts of dissolved chemicals; it is too salty for human consumption. \n\nHOW SALTY IS THE OCEAN?...\nHow salty the ocean is, however, defies ordinary comprehension. Some scientists estimate that the oceans contain as much as 50 quadrillion tons (50 million billion tons) of dissolved solids.\n\nIf the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick, about the height of a 40-story office building. The saltiness of the ocean is more understandable when compared with the salt content of a fresh-water lake. For example, when 1 cubic foot of sea water evaporates it yields about 2.2 pounds of salt, but 1 cubic foot of fresh water from Lake Michigan contains only one one-hundredth (0.01) of a pound of salt, or about one sixth of an ounce. Thus, sea water is 220 times saltier than the fresh lake water. What arouses the scientist's curiosity is not so much why the ocean is salty, but why it isn't fresh like the rivers and streams that empty into it. Further, what is the origin of the sea and of its "salts"? And how does one explain ocean water's remarkably uniform chemical composition? To these and related questions, scientists seek answers with full awareness that little about the oceans is understood.\n\n\nIllustration: Sources of salts in the ocean.\n\nTHE ORIGIN OF THE SEA...\nIn popular language, "ocean" and "sea" are used interchangeably. Today's seas are the North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans and the Antarctic waters or seas.\nScientists believe that the seas are as much as 500 million years old because animals that lived then occur as fossils in rocks which once were under ancient seas. There are several theories about the origin of the seas, but no single theory explains all aspects of this puzzle. Many earth scientists agree with the hypothesis that both the atmosphere and the oceans have accumulated gradually through geologic time from some process of "degassing" of the Earth's interior. According to this theory, the ocean had its origin from the prolonged escape of water vapor and other gases from the molten igneous rocks of the Earth to the clouds surrounding the cooling Earth. After the Earth's surface had cooled to a temperature below the boiling point of water, rain began to fall and continued to fall for centuries. As the water drained into the great hollows in the Earth's surface, the primeval ocean came into existence. The forces of gravity prevented the water from leaving the planet.\n\nSOURCES OF THE SALTS...\nSea water has been defined as a weak solution of almost everything. Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled ign
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Safe to drink... or safe to be around in the presence of an electrical current?\n\nWell zero conductivity would be ideal, because it would be evidence of zero ion presence in the water.\n\nHowever the water could be very conductive and still be "safe" to consume. Salt (Na-Cl) for instance mixed into the water would make turn the water into an ionic solution. It is therefore now has conductivity. But as we all know... we can consume salt water "safely" if it is consumed at appropriate amounts.
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salt is sodium i would say eat salty foods
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Dear Friend,\n\nSalt in the ocean comes from the land. The elements that make up salts, such as chlorine and sodium, started out in rocks. Water and acids eroded the rocks, and rivers carried the elements into the sea. The oceans usually contain 35 parts of salts for every 1000 parts of sea water. This is lower in some places where there is a lot of fresh water coming into the ocean. It is higher where the Sun is very strong and evaporates more of the water. When all the water is gone, the salts are left behind as solid, white crystals.\n\nThe right amount of salt is a very important part of our diet. In ancient times, salt was worth its weight in gold. People used it to flavor and preserve their food. Without salt, the food would spoil. For this reason, salt became a symbol of purity. Some sacrifices in the Old Testament included salt (Leviticus 2:13; Ezekiel 43:24). Jesus called faithful people "the salt of the earth," and the apostle Paul said that our speech should be "seasoned with salt" (Colossians 4:6).
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what do you mean by "salt"? There are hundreds of thousands of salts~~~\n\nsodium chloride for what you normally eat.
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tequnically, yes, because your tears are swept away in the water, and your tears are made of salt. but you really wouldn't feel it. It is still possible, though.
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Sea salt melts it quickly.\n\n\nPeace
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Salty and bitter, and kinda thick.\n\nDont do it if you dont want to.
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Salt is a mineral, and probably is present everywhere in the world. I've heard that Native Americans traded salt among themselves long before we came here.
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seafood is salty... salt dehydrates you, therefore you get thirsty
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Not trying to be funny but are you asking a question or just sharing what someone else said & want comments or what? Im gonna assume you want comments so here's one: UGH!!! Like u said, its someone looking for attention. The average persons stomach probably wouldnt HOLD that much food! He'd die just from the salted pork (high sodium) & the seafood (high iodine content). He's full of sh!t....literally!
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When I was in a medical study where I had to have a lot of salt they gave me bouillon cubes to make soup to have with lunch. One lunch when I forgot to make the soup I was left driving home with the cube and a bottle of water so I really tried this.\n\nNo - bouillon cubes are absolutely impossible to eat because they are so salty.so you will never have a chance to make the soup inside you.
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Salt is bad for EVERYONE. Not just guys. It's good to eat a little because it has Iodine, a necessary nutrient, in it. To much can cause high blood pressure and/or clog your ateries.