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The reason soup, tears, and pools all taste faintly of the ocean you came from.
means A compound formed when chlorine gains an electron and bonds with another element, most familiarly as the chlorine ion sitting in ordinary table salt.
from Built from 'chlorine' plus the chemistry suffix '-ide,' which marks a simple compound formed with another element. Chlorine itself was named from the Greek 'khloros,' meaning pale green, after the color of the gas — first isolated and described in the early 1800s. So the word is a double inheritance: a color word from Greek botany-talk, bolted onto a tidy chemist's label for 'joined with chlorine.'
- body share
- makes up most of your blood's negative charge
- not chlorine
- chlorine gas kills, chloride seasons your fries
- brine power
- melts ice by wrecking water's freezing point
- nerve role
- lets neurons shut up via inhibitory signaling