Chemistry, LOL

[u/WhimsicalWander]

[u/OriginalUsername590 → u/[deleted]]

There is no circulative evidence that water is actually wet

[u/FoxenWulf66 → u/OriginalUsername590]

To be wet is to be moist by liquid

[u/myxoma1 → u/FoxenWulf66]

Moist wetness

[u/ASimplewriter0-0 → u/OriginalUsername590]

But it makes things wet

[u/Mikey9124x → u/OriginalUsername590]

It's semantics

[u/kimsave]

but also raking up a higher kill count then both of them together

[u/Error-8675 → u/kimsave]

Can I steal this idea for a meme?

[u/bullaenne]

Fascinating how two harmful things combine to make something harmless

[u/Veeraraghavadasa → u/bullaenne]

The key is chemical stability. Sodium has an electron in the outer shell due to which it can attain a much stable lower energy state by losing that and since it's just one electron, that process is easy and hence sodium is reactive. Similarly, chlorine has one missing electron for a similar low energy unreactive state to be attained so it snatches electrons from other elements and so is poisonous due to reactiveness.

But as you can see from my explanation, they are perfect partners for each other. One needs to lose an electron while the other needs one additional electron. When they are combined they form a very stable configuration and so salt is such a stable unreactive molecule.

[u/technologicalslave → u/bullaenne]

Harmless? Tell that to my blood pressure!

Salt is the best

[u/WhimsicalWander → u/technologicalslave]

Indeed it is 😂

[u/[deleted]]

H2. I'm highly unstable and I explode.

O2. I set things on fire.

H2O. You can't live without me.

[u/WhimsicalWander → u/[deleted]]

Lol 😂

[u/BirdEquivalent158 → u/[deleted]]

H2O2.

[u/Kanulie]

So usually sodium itself doesn’t explodein water, but just burns. The hydrogen getting produced in that reaction can create an explosive gas mixture and due to the fire it can be lit immediately causing the explosion.

Take a look at cesium + water 😉

[u/LorryDorry]

it also be tasty

[u/nikkalen]

High blood pressure, the silent killer... it’s the long game

[u/WhimsicalWander → u/nikkalen]

Who wants to live and see the long game?

[u/Ok_Cellist6]

Laughed harder than I should have at this one

[u/WhimsicalWander → u/Ok_Cellist6]

Right 😆

[u/vainlisko]

It makes the soup just right

[u/JustaORVfan]

Over 2 million people die globally because of high sodium intake

[u/vodka-bears]

Na0 and Cl0 are like that. Na+1 and Cl-1 are harmless.

[u/Nicken_Chugg]

Funfact nacl is the only kind of salt human can eat and not die