salts

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Despite the harsh conditions, the yeast cells remained alive after exposure to shock waves, perchlorate salts, and even both stressors combined.

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

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

“I’m a regular user of smelling salts, taking them for a boost of energy before every offensive drive,” he said.

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