salts

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It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The plants were supplied with a nutrient solution made of ultrapure water, salts, nutrients, and one of the medications for as long as 45 days.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

Meg’s jam refuses to gel, Jo salts instead of sugars the strawberries, ambition and reality collide, humiliation stings but eventually becomes something to laugh about.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

This radiation reacts with salts and other materials on the moon's surface, producing compounds that could serve as nutrients for microbes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

But they all sounded like witches’ brews: the plasma of chickens, puree of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot