Your red blood cells need a specific sodium balance to move through the body, suspended in the plasma. “It maintains your ...

Salt silicate is a family of inorganic compounds composed of differing ratios of salt oxide (Na ₂ O) and silicon dioxide (SiO ...

Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they ...

Neglecting to soften your water with salt often enough can cause serious damage to your home because the minerals can build ...

In conversation with Mále Uribe, we set out to learn about the processes and ideas that work at the intersection of art, ...

In Des Moines, the problem’s gotten so bad that lawn watering has been prohibited. But cities like Cedar Rapids and Iowa city ...

A new gold extraction method turns old electronics into treasure using pool disinfectant and sunlight — no poisons required.

As salt is also present in soil, a piece about 5cm in size disintegrates on land after over 200 hours, he added. The material can be used like regular plastic when coated, and the team is focusing ...

WAKO, Japan, June 4 (Reuters) - Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans ...

The biggest source of salty freshwater in D.C. and other major northern inland cities is an overapplication of road salt to thaw winter ice, which runs off into rivers or the ground.

Road salt—mostly sodium chloride—dissolves into streams and groundwater to reach aquifers and poison drinking water. Advocates at the press conference said that a high-salt diet is dangerous ...

Anti-inflammatory effects occur as salt particles interact with the moist environment of the respiratory lining. When these particles dissolve in the thin fluid layer covering respiratory tissues ...