Michael Moss

Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.

American Journalist

Victor Grignard

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

French Scientist

Chloride is found in everyday substances like salt.

Common Compound

Some chlorides are vital for health, others can be toxic.

Health-Relevant

Despite 'salt' synonym, not all chlorides taste salty.

Not Always Salty

Chloride specifically refers to chlorine ions with a negative charge.

Ion Specific

Chloride ions are crucial in cellular functions and fluids.

Biological Roles

Chloride can reveal pH levels when used in chemical tests.

Acidity Indicator

Chloride-based products are used for everyday practical purposes.

Practical Uses

Some chlorides are used in food preservation or preparation.

Food Industry

 and that's what that image on the left is -- gradually getting encrusted with the calcium carbonate. So after a while, we could take that out, use it as a lightweight building block. And if you think about the carbon in that, that would have come out of the atmosphere, into the sea and then locked away in a building product. The next thing is sodium chloride.

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 So I brought my two biochemistry friends and we went to talk to him about our crazy theory. And that theory was that life produces all small molecules, so many molecules. Like, everything I could think of, but not being a chemist. Think about carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, molecular hydrogen, molecular nitrogen, methane, methyl chloride --

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 polonium, named for Marie's native Poland, and radium, the Latin word for ray. They also coined the term radioactivity along the way. By 1902, the Curies had extracted a tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride salt from several tons of pitchblende, an incredible feat at the time.

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 That attraction binds together compounds, like table salt, which is made of positively charged sodium ions stuck to negatively charged chloride ions. But a gecko's feet aren't charged and neither are the surfaces they're walking on. So, what makes them stick?

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 and one positively charged ion. And the attraction between these opposite charges is called an ionic bond. This is the kind of sharing where you just give away your toy to someone else and then never get it back. Table salt, sodium chloride,

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 also influence flame color. For instance, any unreacted carbon atoms from the logs form little clumps of soot that rise into the flames and emit the yellow-orange light we associate with a campfire. Substances like copper, calcium chloride,

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 or they can separate based on charge. The membranes that are used to separate salt and water typically separate based on charge. And these membranes are negatively charged, and help to repel the negatively charged chloride ions

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 experiments that it seemed to work salt that goes into the ground can be a problem if it builds up too high because plants can't grow calcium chloride we knew could help the texture of the cucumbers and from an environmental

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 a spongy plastic used in insulation. Soon after came polyvinyl chloride, or vinyl, which was flexible yet hardy. Acrylics created transparent, shatter-proof panels that mimicked glass.

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 contains high amounts of sodium and chloride. The cells pump these ions into a hollow tube that runs through the sweat gland. Then, because it's saltier inside the tube than outside,