On the verge of giving up!!!!

Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Billy the Mountain said:
Seriously? Your metric of whether a compound is a salt is taste? That's absurd.

I agree NaCl is pretty tasty, but that has nothing to do with the fact that Epsom salt is indeed a salt
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I know what happens if you put salt on the ground or plants it kills everything
Don’t ask about the water softner incident of 2018
So no it isn’t a salt
Here is a clip from the article I used for reference
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Markshomegrown

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Herb & Suds said:
You know it’s comical
If they want real proof they should sprinkle some salt on their plants and let us know how that goes :wall:
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  • Magnesium sulfate is an inorganic salt with the formula MgSO4(H2O)x where 0≤x≤7. It is often encountered as the heptahydrate sulfate mineral epsomite (MgSO4·7H2O), commonly called Epsom salt. The overall global annual usage in the mid-1970s of the monohydrate was 2.3 million tons, of which the majority was used in agriculture.
 
ComputerSaysNo

ComputerSaysNo

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Herb & Suds said:
You know it’s comical
If they want real proof they should sprinkle some salt on their plants and let us know how that goes
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"Epsom salt" is a salt, in the chemical sense of the word. It's obviously not the same as "table salt".

The chemical "salts" encompass more substances than just sodium chloride.

Wikiwand - Magnesium sulfate

Magnesium sulfate or magnesium sulphate is a chemical compound, a salt with the formula MgSO4, consisting of magnesium cations Mg2+ (20.19% by mass) and sulfate anions SO2−4. It is a white crystalline solid, soluble in water but not in ethanol.
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@Markshomegrown You beat me to it.
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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Markshomegrown said:
  • Magnesium sulfate is an inorganic salt with the formula MgSO4(H2O)x where 0≤x≤7. It is often encountered as the heptahydrate sulfate mineral epsomite (MgSO4·7H2O), commonly called Epsom salt. The overall global annual usage in the mid-1970s of the monohydrate was 2.3 million tons, of which the majority was used in agriculture.
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It’s called a salt it is not a salt based on compound
 
Flork

Flork

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In chemistry, a salt is an ionic compound which is made up of two groups of oppositely charged ions. The ion with a positive charge is called a cation, and the one with a negative charge is called an anion. How many of each type of ion the salt has is important because the compound must have an overall electrical charge of zero- that is, an equal balance between positive charge and negative charge.

Salts can be easily identified since they usually consist of positive ions from a metal with negative ions from a non metal.

So careful tasting arsenic salts.
 
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