• Instigate@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, if “toxic + toxic = toxic” made sense then table salt would be extremely dangerous.

    Sodium = extremely volatile and usually explosive metal when interacting with water (more than half of what makes us)

    Chlorine = gas at room temperature that can kill you in minutes at concentrations of 1000ppm or more

    Sodium + Chlorine = Sodium Chloride = delicious table salt that makes food yummy and helps power our neurons

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      Thinking about it, we work on a whole bunch of highly volatile chemicals bound to a bit less volatile ones for stability.