salts

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The experiments included exposure to powerful shock waves comparable to those created by meteorite impacts on Mars, as well as perchlorate salts, which are toxic compounds known to exist in Martian soil.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 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

When the precursors were treated with fluoride salts, cubene or quadricyclene formed inside the reaction vessel.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Football leans on tradition, providing convenient cover for the NFL’s lenient stance on smelling salts, ammonia crystals that players believe enhance performance when inhaled.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

He took a tentative sniff, as if it might be noxious smelling salts.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly