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Yeah but it says right on the front that it’s half potassium chloride and half sodium chloride.
Well I’m glad they used KCl, I thought this was going to be a container half-full of chlorine–concerning, if you intend to put it on your food.
Chloride, not chlorine
Chloride is the ionic form
Right, and that’s the form it’s in in both NaCl and KCl
Correct and that was the supposed joke. Instead of chloride, the anion, which would occur in some form of a salt, the container would contain half NaCl and the other half just chlorine gas, Cl2. Thereby making the statement (50% less sodium) technically true. (Disregard the pressure you would need to put the same molar amount of gas into the volume of a solid)
We Dutch call it “Kalium zout” or Low Sodium Salt. The brand I buy is iodized and has 70% less natrium. And yeah, it is for health reasons, like heart condition, high blood pressure and other medical ailments, or people who want to eat less salt in their diets.
Anyway, what you are looking at is 100% salt and original op (the one on xitter) is an idiot.
For englishers: Kalium (K) is potassium and Natrium (Na) is sodium.
Yes you are absolutely right, thank you for elaboration.
I don’t understand this post. Salt doesn’t mean sodium. NaCl and KCl are both salts, and this is a 50/50 blend with less sodium (Na) for the people who need/want that. Am I missing something?
The part you’re missing is that potassium chloride used to be used in the lethal injection. Somehow it still has a lower LD50 than sodium chloride.
How was that alluded to in the OP? Eating it isn’t the same as injecting it. It’s a normal ingredient in electrolyte drinks and rehydration salts. It’s also prescribed for hypokalemia.
Also yes hyperkalemia is really effective at killing as is hypernatremia. This is not only known but also evolved around. Your body works pretty hard to ensure you don’t ingest so much of either ion that you develop these conditions.
As stated right there on the label, some of the NaCl has been replaced with
taster’s choiceKCl. So it was never pure sodium to begin with, due to all that pesky chlorine and now about half of the Na has been replaced with Potassium.Fyi it’s chloride, not chlorine, but otherwise spot on
So uh, what do you think the Cl in NaCl stands for?
I had to read this like 24 times to make sure I didn’t miss anything, but I’m 98% certain you’re correct. When referring to the individual components it should be chlorine not chloride. I’m not a chemical doctor, but this is my understanding.
