salts

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It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

By combining different halide salts, researchers created MXenes with two or even three types of surface halogens in carefully controlled proportions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 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

She pulls the smelling salts out and puts them under Miss Celia’s nose and Miss Celia jerks her head, lets out a little cry, and opens her eyes.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett