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[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 182 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I was going for. Gonna need a lot more na tho.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

Na-na-na Naaa

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 47 points 1 month ago
[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

pure sodium meets saliva

bits of mouth, now spread across the room, catch fire

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Bits of Mouth, name of my new band.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The pasta would cook itself

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

Just don’t put the pasta next to the antipasta.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dangercake@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Cu later then

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it -1 points 1 month ago

You don't say!

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mmm, yes. I too love eating metals that explode when they touch water. Extra spicy. It does more than double the sodium content of your salt though, so watch out for that if you have high blood pressure.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Instead we should be replacing the sodium with chlorine!

[–] swankypantsu@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

thx. i like that

edit: laughs in german

[–] ExploitedAmerican@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

This is an explosive opinion

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is kind of funny how, even though I understand how they cancel out, the unification of two very reactive elements makes harmless salt.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hydrogen and oxygen are quite reactive as well.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

And both water and salt, while vital to human life, are harmful to others. Water is a powerful solvent, and salt can kill snails.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're just nearly equally reactive in two opposite directions.

You can absolutely make salts with acidic or alkaline properties by altering this careful balance.

It's like two titans fighting until both are dead and peace roams over the valley. Or, more accurately, relentless robber meeting someone who desperately needs to give something away.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This sounds like the next thing we should get people riled up with along with the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

They put unchlorinated salt in the dang dihydrogen monoxide!

[–] Brynawel@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

That's just your reaction to it!

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

I mean if we could get certain people who are deadset on making the world worse to believe this like the do for every other dumb fucking lie (EG: Vaccines and Autism, Fluoride in tap water, etc) this might be productive.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Na, I don’t think so

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Personally, I sub out the chlorine for hydrogen and oxygen, which I know are safe because that's what's in water. It also helps keep my soup nice and warm whenever I sprinkle it in.

Eating sodium chloride is kind of insane. It would be like if you took my stuff and poured a bunch of hydrochloric acid on it and then sprinkled that all over your food. Yeah, no thanks.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You just know getting that to happen was the absolute peak crowning achievement of some bureaucrat's career.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Naw the army was dumping all kinds of stuff after WWII. They had built up so much material that this would be a unknown rubber stamp action without that film.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorta like the artifical coral reefs the US made out of WWII tanks

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

"I'm just gonna salt my pasta a bit and ... "

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Do you want to keep your teeth? How much are you planning on living? I have so many questions.