The video is divided into two parts. The first features the "Big McThankies From McSpankies" line that spawned that meme. The second half features the line, "It's sodium chloride." In both halves, the ...

In response, your body holds onto chloride, causing hyperchloremia. In hyperchloremic acidosis, either your body is losing too much base or retaining too much acid. A base called sodium ...

Cobalt is a byproduct of nickel and copper mining. In recent years, cobalt has taken its place as one of the world’s most sought-after commodities due to its use in semiconductor chips and the ...

Her medical history revealed the use of a sodium hydroxide (NaOH)—impregnated swab without gloves for approximately 2–3 h. Within several hours she felt a burning sensation and noticed significant ...

While electric cars are clearly beneficial for local air quality wherever they're used, ethical and environmental concerns have been raised over the mining of materials such as lithium and cobalt that ...

The work will be of considerable interest to the kinase field as well as colleagues studying allosteric regulation of protein function. Osmotic stress and chloride regulate the autophosphorylation and ...

Instead of using expensive materials like lithium, nickel and cobalt, these will be made of sodium, iron and manganese. In a battery, ions move between electrodes during a charging and discharging ...

Once upon a time, the only instance in which we’d have paid this kind of money for a USB stick was if we were being blackmailed. But then along came the AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt USB DAC. The Cobalt ...

Kosher salt is made solely from sodium chloride and doesn’t usually contain additives or iodine. It’s less dense than table salt, and often used in cooking because the larger grains are easy ...