Wordless Wednesday

Pass the Salt, Please!!

Sodium is an extremely active element which always links itself to another element.  Chlorine is a poisonous gas.  When combined, chlorine stabilizes sodium and sodium neutralizes the poison of the chlorine.

The result, sodium chloride is common table salt, a highly stable substance used through the centuries to preserve meat, enhance flavor and, prior to modern medicine, help clean and heal wounds. (This is probably where the term "rubbing salt into a wound" came from, don't you think?)