salts

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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

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

The noted Roman naturalist and historian was indeed an early expert in fermentation, yet he also wrote about “sal ammoniac” — yes, smelling salts — in his encyclopedic work “Natural History,” published in 79 A.D.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

He had returned, he said, because he had forgotten to take his Epsom salts.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela