h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It looks like it's going to be an uphill battle...

HELL

Actually, yes they will notice the difference.

And so will you because your fish will be dead fish.

I *really* doubt that. There's nothing in (any) salt that the fish would actually need to survive. The only thing NaCl does is to keep up the osmotic pressure.


HELL

Well there are differences ie in the proportions of potassium and bromide etc, also table salt has additives such as an iron cyanide complex for which you'd probably see the CN stretches in the IR if there's enough in it... hmm, might try that if I get bored later

But anyway, in the context of the entry I think this has gone a little far

Hi, Tango!

Could you post here when you have corrected all the spelling mistakes etc. that were pointed out on the first page of this thread? A lot of suggestions have been made, and until I know which ones you are going to incorporate into the entry it's difficult to make any more useful comments.



Azara

Yeah, sorry, i'll sort it out tomorrow hopefully. I'm too tired now.

Tango

"The most commonly known form of salt is commonly known as table salt, or sea salt."

Too many "commonly"'s.


"In Chemisty"

Chemistry...

"it is called Sodium Chloride."

No need for capitals, I think.

"but many don't see the many uses"

Too many "many"'s.

"it has a postive charge."

Positive.

"Sodium is located in group IA of the Alakine"

Alkaline.

"a negitively charged chloride ion"

Negatively.

"Clorine ions are denoted by Cl-. Chlorine"

The second one is right.

"is located in group VII A the halogens in the periodic table and has a relative atomic mass of 35.45."

Explanation of why the atomic mass is not even close to an integer?

"causes them to come together in such a mannor"

Manner.

" a giant ionic latice,"

Lattice.

"of which, the symbol is NaCL."

NaCl. Lower case l.

"to give the name Sodium Chloride.. "

One full stop is plenty.

"Alone, both sodium and chlorine, are "

Second comma is not necessary.

"poisinous"

Poisonous.

"and highly reactive with oxygen,"

They're highly reactive with a lot of things, why single out oxygen?

"but the combination of the two forms a neutral, safe compound."

Define "safe", in this context?

"Salt was the first garnih "

Garnish.

"Documation of the use of salt"

Documentation.

"can be seen dated back to 2700 BC, 4700 years ago. This documation"

Documentation.

"shows that, in China, Pong-Tzao-Kan-Au"

Who's that? He? She?

"The Nomads were said to have spread the use of salt westward"

What nomads?

"to the european countries"

European does require capitalisation.

"such as France, Holland, Spain, Italy, West Africa, South Africa,"

West Africa and South Africa are not European Countries. South Africa is a country, not a region. You may mean "southern Africa". How did they spread it westward to west Africa and miss out east Africa?

"Salt was one of the greatest economicaly important substances"

Economically.

"held as a high comodity."

Commodity. What does this phrase mean?

" There are also 30 refrences made to salt in the Bible."

References.

"in tears and excreated by the body"

Excreted.

"as a major component or urea."

Of.

"First and foremost it must be understood that humans as well as animals can not live without salt, more specifically, without the sodium in salt."

Run on sentence.

"must get it in some other way, usually by comsumption."

Consumption.

"as well as maintaing ion concentrations."

Maintaining.

"The sodium ion also maintains blood pressure. the cholride ion"

Capital T. Chloride.

"functions to maintain acid base balance"

Hyphenate acid-base.

"The choloride ion"

Chloride.

"also inhances the blood's ability"

Enhances.

"to carry carbondioxide through blood stream"

Carbon dioxide is two words.

"The average person should ingest at least 500mg of salt per day."

What is the RDA of salt? If this is it, state that. State it in grammes, rather than milligrammes, and make the point that it's possible to get the full RDA by eating many foods which don't taste in the least salty. Adding salt is almost invariably unnecessary except for taste.

"Salt is also important in preservation of food by creating a hostile environment for microrganisms by dehydrating their cells."

Too many "by"s. Make into two sentences.

"Salt is a great additive to food for flavour as well as texture such as in grains to provied a uniform bread dough."

Is this really the reason for its use in bread - texture??

"Salts are used in highway safety, it is cheap and abundant and melts snow and ice readily."

Run on sentence.

"During snow storms salt is spread on roads and paths in order to prevent dangerous slippery conditions for motorists and pedestrians."

Why?



I'd like to take this opportunity to ask, again, for Tango to retract and apologise for his defamatory lies about me.

Thanks.

H.

Come on U32077, make the changes. There's a six-day sixty-thread back-log here.

Tango just mentioned two postings above (no six days) that he'll do some changes today... easy, forlks.

What defamatory lies, HVL? I don't see anything defamatory in this Entry or in the backlog. C'mon!

HELL

That was posted yesterday and stated "today", i.e., yesterday, not "tomorrow", i.e., today.

DMT

See also: F48874?thread=276217&skip=0&show=20#p3447041

DMT, read the posting again, it says 'tomorrow' (i.e. today)

HELL

(off to look at thread)

???

That's the backlog, DMT.

To where were you pointing me?

HELL

Has Tango made any changes at all yet? I think all of my major point have still to be addressed.

Precisely nothing has been addressed.

C'mon folks. Cool it. He just said he's going to work on it tomorrow.

Why are you all so anxious? I had some Entries in PR for weeks and weeks without a post, or even without doing much on them.

Be more patient, some people don't come in everyday, y'know?

HELL

I'm in the middle of exams for crying out loud! Give my a break!

I'll get around to it when i get around to it, i can't promise any more than that, sorry. If you guys just stop posting then this can drop down the list and you can ignore it until i make the changes and post here to say i have.

Patience is a virtue, my friends.

Tango

As is honesty.

H.

>"There are also 30 refrences made to salt in the Bible."

>References
says hvl.

You really want them?

Gen 14.13 & 19.26 (Lot's wife)
Lev 2.13
Nos 18.19, 34.3 & 34.12
Deut 3.17 & 29.23
Jos 3.16, 12.3, 15.2, 15.5, 15.62 (city of Salt), 18.19
Judg 9.45
2 Sam 8.13
2 K 2.20 & 21 & 14.7
1 Chr 18.12
2 Chr 13.5 & 25.11
Ezra 6.9 & 7.22
Job 6.6
Psalm 60 (heading)
Jer 17.6
Ezek 16.6, 43.24 & 47.11

Matt 5.13 (salt of the earth)
Mark 9.49 & 50 (ditto)
Luke 14.34 (ditto)
Coloss 4.6
James 3.12

That looks like 33 or 34; perhaps the city of Salt is off-thread.

I'm not a scientist, but I saw some figures that look counter-intuitive to me: "This compound consists of 60.663% Cl and 39.337% Na" .

If one digit in each figure were changed, it would be eggsackly 2:1.

Why is it *eggsackly* something that is *so* not 2:1? What I mean is, why such a degree of precision? Would ~61% ~39% be misleading the public?

I had a similar complaint to make about wind speeds in the Beaufort Scale entry.

Recumbentman: I wasn't asking for references. I was correcting the spelling of "references". Sorry for the confusion, and well done for dragging up the actual references!

H.