Students will be able to explain, on the molecular level, why water can dissolve salt. Students will be able to identify the variables in their experiment. Students will also be able to explain why a ...

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

After viewing a model of salt, students help develop models for the processes of salt dissolving, water evaporating to form a gas, and salt re-forming as a crystal. The focus is that matter, whether ...

Japanese scientists unveil a material that dissolves in hours in contact with salt, leaving no trace behind.

A pinch of salt is not only valuable for dishes, houseplants can also benefit from the mineral. myHOMEBOOK editor Franka Kruse-Gering explains when and how you should salt your houseplants. The post ...

Warm water may also help the salt dissolve into the water more easily which is important if you’re using coarse sea or kosher salt. You can use any type of salt for salt water gargles.

Japanese scientists at RIKEN CEMS, led by Takuzo Aida, have developed a new supramolecular plastic that maintains strength in use but dissolves quickly in saltwater.

"Using the high school chemistry experiment with getting precipitate out of a solution as an example: when I dissolve salt (the solute) into water (the solvent), the water is dominant. It ...

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.

After dissolving the initial new plastic in salt water, they were able to recover 91% of the hexametaphosphate and 82% of the guanidinium as powders, indicating that recycling is easy and efficient.

Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store massive amounts of thermal energy at atmospheric pressure. When used as fuel the molten salt is dissolved with fissile ...