Some salts smell. Table salt (whatâs pictured in the meme) doesnât have a detectable smell in solid form, not enough vaporizes to notice. Smelling salts are ammonium carbonate, not sodium chloride like table salt, and they do smell strongly. âSaltâ can refer to either table salt or to any ionic compound whatsoever. The latter is chemistry jargon, but then gets used in colloquial terms like âsmelling saltsâ or âsalty licoriceâ neither of which have table salt but both of which have other ionic compounds.
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Some salts smell. Table salt (whatâs pictured in the meme) doesnât have a detectable smell in solid form, not enough vaporizes to notice. Smelling salts are ammonium carbonate, not sodium chloride like table salt, and they do smell strongly. âSaltâ can refer to either table salt or to any ionic compound whatsoever. The latter is chemistry jargon, but then gets used in colloquial terms like âsmelling saltsâ or âsalty licoriceâ neither of which have table salt but both of which have other ionic compounds.