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Well I'm glad they used KCl, I thought this was going to be a container half-full of chlorine--concerning, if you intend to put it on your food.
Half the sodium, double the chloride! Perfection ๐
Quadruple the reactivity!
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(I am not a chemist, and I am not your chemist. These statements should not be construed as chemistry advice.)
I can have my own chemist? I can keep them?
We have chemist at home
Chemist at home:
Should have posted this one
Chloride, not chlorine
I think they meant chlorine, as in Cl2 (g). Certainly not edible, thus the joke.
Chloride is the ionic form
Right, and that's the form it's in in both NaCl and KCl
Correct and that was the supposed joke. Instead of chloride, the anion, which would occur in some form of a salt, the container would contain half NaCl and the other half just chlorine gas, Cl2. Thereby making the statement (50% less sodium) technically true. (Disregard the pressure you would need to put the same molar amount of gas into the volume of a solid)
I'm proud to report that my chemistry is just barely good enough to follow this comment. ๐
I mean technically... At least half of the elemental construction of both of those ingredients is chlorine... So... Technically it is.
By weight or by molarity?
Molarity.
If my quick calculations are right it's 53% chlorine ions by weight