The lab-created compounds — never seen before — might exist naturally on icy moons in the outer solar system. By Kenneth Chang Scientists have discovered two new forms of salty ice that probably do ...

From Mother Nature to our must-have devices, we’re surrounded by crystals. Those courtesy of the former, such as ice and snow, can form spontaneously and symmetrically. But the silicon-based or ...

Tiny salt grains discovered in samples returned by the Hayabusa mission imply liquid water could be common in the largest solar system space rock population. When you purchase through links on our ...

MANY experiments have been carried out with sodium chloride crystals to investigate the Joffé effect, according to which the dissolution of surface layers by surrounding solvents results in an ...

IN this note a method of quantitative calculation and construction of Laue patterns from bent sodium chloride crystals is proposed, which is in good agreement with experiment. It is known 1 that when ...

After any winter weather event, many drivers may be wondering how to remove the brine from their vehicles that was sprayed to help keep area roads from icing over. Brine is a mixture of salt and water ...

I’m not being hyperbolic when I say salt is the most important seasoning of all time. It makes things taste salty, sure, but it also makes things taste like better versions the themselves, and more ...