colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-212 days agoWhen a sports drink list sodium and chloride as separate ingredients, separated by other ingredients, is there a difference between that and just listing salt as an ingredient?message-squaremessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareWhen a sports drink list sodium and chloride as separate ingredients, separated by other ingredients, is there a difference between that and just listing salt as an ingredient?colourlesspony@pawb.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-212 days agomessage-square9linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days ago A salt molecule is 1 sodium and 1 chlorine. If you measure by mass, the chlorine is about 50% heavier than the sodium, so salt is not 50/50, it’s actually closer to something like 33.3/66.7. TIL Thank you!
TIL Thank you!