Unrefined sea salt bollocks

[SpookyFrank]

Oh - and can salt be 'organic'? Does 'organic' even mean anything anymore? How can salt be 'organic' if
1) it isn't a product of a plant or an animal or any living thing ?
2) it hasn't been grown, it's simply been taken out of a solution?
3) it comes from rocks??

If salt can be described as organic then surely I could pick up a fuckin rock from the street and sell it to some gullible rich twat in a health food shop for £40 a gram.

And that's not the first time I've considered selling rocks for £40 a gram

Cocaine, as it happens, is classed as an organic salt. Sodium chloride, literally the textbook example of a simple ionic compound, is not.

 

[Pickman's model]

You don't really need to add it to anything - at least if you're eating some processed stuff like bread as that contains it.

It wouldn't cross my mind to add salt to any food apart from chips.

Cod

 

[Pickman's model]

Cocaine, as it happens, is classed as an organic salt. Sodium chloride, literally the textbook example of a simple ionic compound, is not.

That's because there's no carbon in sodium chloride and the definition of organic chemistry is it deals with carbon compounds

 

[nogojones]

I recall that you need to use non-iodised salt if you're extracting DMT. Whether that's sea salt or Saxo, I'm not sure.

 

[SpookyFrank]

That's because there's no carbon in sodium chloride and the definition of organic chemistry is it deals with carbon compounds

I'm a chemistry teacher, so yes I know that.

 

[WouldBe]

Cocaine, as it happens, is classed as an organic salt. Sodium chloride, literally the textbook example of a simple ionic compound, is not.

Classed as organic as it's carbon based and pure cocaine isn't a salt.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Classed as organic as it's carbon based and pure cocaine isn't a salt.

See above

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm a chemistry teacher, so yes I know that.

That's a relief

 

[platinumsage]

Don’t worry, our chemistry teacher for A-levels didn’t know why stuff goes rusty more quickly in salt water.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

That's because there's no carbon in sodium chloride and the definition of organic chemistry is it deals with carbon compounds

There probably is when it's burned during the smoking process, so it qualifies.

not a chemistry teacher

 

[Sasaferrato]

Cocaine, as it happens, is classed as an organic salt. Sodium chloride, literally the textbook example of a simple ionic compound, is not.

Nearly. Cocaine base isn't a salt, cocaine hydrochloride is.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Nearly. Cocaine base isn't a salt, cocaine hydrochloride is.

That's the stuff people actually consume though, now they've stopped putting it in cough syrup and baby milk.

 

[WouldBe]

See above

And what about the salt bit?

 

[WouldBe]

There probably is when it's burned during the smoking process, so it qualifies.

not a chemistry teacher

Why would you smoke salt?

 

[bcuster]

i'd heard that it is important to use table salt that has iodine added. i'd heard the dietary need for all other trace minerals that "unrefined" salt may or may not contain pale in comparison to the need foe supplemental iodine in the human diet...

Iodine Deficiency | American Thyroid Association

www.thyroid.org

 

[Sasaferrato]

That's the stuff people actually consume though, now they've stopped putting it in cough syrup and baby milk.

Coca Cola as well at the start.

 

[ouirdeaux]

True, but only you remember those glory days.

 

[Sasaferrato]

True, but only you remember those glory days.

Feeky chucker!

 

[Raheem]

i'd heard that it is important to use table salt that has iodine added. i'd heard the dietary need for all other trace minerals that "unrefined" salt may or may not contain pale in comparison to the need foe supplemental iodine in the human diet...

Think it is considered good from a public health perspective, so that people with very poor diets get iodine. But iodine is in lots of foods, and you don't need a lot of it. So, salt is probably only beneficial for it's iodine content if you're someone who eats nothing but bread and butter, or whatever.

 

[WouldBe]

Coca Cola as well at the start.

Hence the name.