This salt crystal is both exotic and common: It’s actually table salt — also known as sodium chloride, with the chemical formula NaCl — but bound up with water molecules to form a hydrate ...

But if you’re healthy and don’t have known heart problems, a sprinkling of salt in water won’t harm you and may help keep you hydrated. The type of salt doesn’t matter.

Mass of evaporating basin + hydrated salt = 56.42 g Mass of evaporating basin and contents after heating to constant mass = 54.80 g Use the figures above to calculate the degree of hydration in Al ...

Schematic diagram of SARS-CoV-2. Credit: Sci. Rep. 11, 23122 (2021) Researchers have synthesised a hydrated chloride salt that halted the growth of coronavirus in cultured kidney epithelial cells ...