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Old Jul 20, 2005 | 4:34 pm
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Originally Posted by SRQ Guy
Then we'd all better stop taking in any salt. You know, NaCl?

Oh, and a google search of "side effects of water" comes up with over 10 MILLION hits.



We take in Chlorine every time we eat salt, that's why. Our bodies have a lot of chlorine in them naturally.
It's not the individual atoms that will kill you but the combination they come in. NaCl as a molecule may be harmless and necessary for life but I wouldn;'t want to ingest Na and Cl by themselves. Similarly, H, C and N are all necessary for human life but I wouldn't want to touch the combination molecule of HCN (a.k.a. hydrogen cyanide).
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