Sea salt vs. table salt

Salt in a water solution would have the combined memory of the salt and the water.

I knew that water remembered all sorts of stuff, but I didn't know that NaCl did too.

You put the 'e' in JREF.
 
If salt has a memory and this is sea salt then it should remember whale poo. I doubt whale poo is good for healing my piercing.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
If salt has a memory and this is sea salt then it should remember whale poo. I doubt whale poo is good for healing my piercing.
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Ambergris was used as a medicine as well as a perfume and decoration and was said to have antiseptic properties, so perhaps there's something to this...;)
 
quadraginta said:
I'm pretty sure ambergris isn't the same thing as whale poo, but if it is, considering the market value of ambergris, there may be an investment opportunity being overlooked.
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I think you're right, it's something expelled from Whaley's mouth that I guess they used to make perfume from? Holy hell. We're human-weird and we punch holes in our ears and bellies and eyelids and smother ourselves with whale projectus. Next thing you know, we'll stop communicating with each other face to face and switch to squinting at handheld gizmos for that touchy-feely human connection - you watch and see if it don't be happened soon...
 
My only knowledge of ambergris comes from Futurama, so I too thought it was whale barf. Wiki says it can be, but is usually poo.

Ambergris is usually passed in the fecal matter. Ambergris that forms a mass too large to be passed through the intestines is expelled via the mouth, leading to the reputation of ambergris as primarily coming from whale vomit
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Lisa Simpson said:
My only knowledge of ambergris comes from Futurama, so I too thought it was whale barf. Wiki says it can be, but is usually poo.
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Wait, we're not supposed to get our information from animated sitcoms? Well, I'm sorry, but no matter what the "facts" say, ambergris will always be "freaking porpoise hork" to me.
 
Cool.
This thread has been all over the place.
I'd always heard that ambergris was barfed up from sperm whales. Its a waxy secretion that coats harsh bits of undigested squid beaks. Its the only valuable substance I ever got into looking for, as a kid. It just seemed so cool. Plus, it involved going to the beach.

To discover here (thanks a lot, you bastards) that it is more often in the whale poo, is very disturbing. I'm not sure why, but I liked it better when it was whale barf.

In November, I was on a beach and thought I had found a blobuole of ambergris. I even took it to a sea-biologist. Turns out, it was 'sea-bacon' as they called it. A weird dehydrated blob of dead sea slug or cucumber. I forget now. It was a waxy blob that wouldn't melt or hold a flame. Fascinating stuff in its own right, but not worth much else.
 
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