salts

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It's the stuff of smelling salts and stretchers.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

When exposed only to perchlorate salts, the cells formed P-bodies.

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

The salts were emitting rays of some sort.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson