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Nutrition Facts: Why is sodium listed instead of salt?

Nutrition Facts: Why is sodium listed instead of salt?


Nutrition Facts: Why is sodium listed instead of salt?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 02:58 PM PDT

On nutrition facts they always list off sodium but never just salt. How come chloride content isn't listed as well, or all of the elements for that matter?

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When a baby is in the womb, what is the biological signal that lets the mother know the baby has reached full development, and what goes wrong with this signal when a child is born premature or late?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 04:44 AM PDT

Is there just a biological clock in the mother's body that says 'times up' and then gives birth regardless of development, or is the signal sent from the unborn baby when they're fully developed?

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The heart is just a basic two way pump. Why can't we just install two turbines and have a continuous flow of blood?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 05:28 AM PDT

How do they determine the impact of a volcano that's about to erupt?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 05:06 AM PDT

For example the one on Bali. How do they know that a radius of 12km will be enough?

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What is the process of finding, extracting and containing helium for sale?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 05:06 AM PDT

Considering that quantum computers may become a reality, how this will affect to programming languages?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 07:06 AM PDT

I come to read this thread and I'm wondering if this could affect to programming languages such as C++, and then our ways to write software, or if it just would have and impact at the hardware level and/or assembly languages (like ARM).

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What gas is inside of unopened peppers? Or is it just air?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 01:42 PM PDT

I'm assuming as a pepper grows its inside is never exposed to air on the outside.

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How heavy is fire? If something catches on fire is it heavier or lighter?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 07:06 PM PDT

How do we know how long the sun will burn for?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 05:49 AM PDT

What would a circle look like if the ratio of its circumference to diameter was 3 instead of pi?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 10:07 PM PDT

In Arthur C Clarke's series A Time Odyssey, there are spheres that have the ratio as 3 instead of pi and I was wondering what they might look like.

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What is a kilowatt hour, and why do electric companies charge based on this instead of kilowatts?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:40 PM PDT

why are there Northern Lights but not Eastern Lights?

Posted: 25 Sep 2017 05:34 AM PDT

Is it because there is less rotation at the north and south pole's so the effect is condensed?

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How does deodorant work?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 01:44 PM PDT

I sweat a lot, but I never smell from it. How?

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How much Asteroid mining/extra mass until it has an impact on earth's orbit?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 04:41 PM PDT

How do scientists figure out how tall a mountain is?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 08:49 PM PDT

How does a volume knob work?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 10:36 PM PDT

If fluorine is bound into a diatomic molecule in which the octet rule is satisfied, then why is it still unstable to the point in which it violently reacts with just about anything else?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 10:25 PM PDT

I have always been under the impression that in molecules in which the octet rule has been satisfied, each atom is "happy" with the eight electrons in its outer shell. Why, then, does fluorine prefer to bond with, say, sodium as opposed to itself? Why do hydrogen and oxygen prefer to be bound into H2O as opposed to their diatomic counterparts? In essence, why do atoms prefer some arrangements to others, even though the octet rule is fulfilled either way?

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In a magnetic hard disk, how are the servos that position the read/write head so accurate?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 09:50 PM PDT

With the data tracks as narrow as they are (on the order of a hundred nanometers or so wide), these servos must be incredibly precise. How do they achieve that level of precision?

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Why is drinking milk after spicy foods better than drinking water?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 01:37 PM PDT

Google said that milk is non-polar which help to actually dissolve the capsaicin molecules in your mouth but I don't understand that.

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If we want to colonise mars, why don't we colonise it first with Cyanobacteria and then plants in order to create a habitable atmosphere?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 02:40 PM PDT

In sending humans to Mars, what problems will need to be solved with respect to launching and returning astronauts from Mars' surface?

Posted: 24 Sep 2017 01:53 PM PDT

Even with the lower Martian gravity, will returning launch platforms/vehicles need to be in place before humans step foot on Mars for the first time? Also, with respect to the amount of time to travel to Mars and the differences between a Martian orbit and and Earth orbit, what is the minimum amount of time such a trip require?

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