chloride

We load our food with sodium chloride, but natural diets are far higher in potassium chloride.

Yeah, they usually have some % of potassium chloride, and potassium comes with its own set of problems.

It contains trace amounts of lithium (as well as other 'trace' minerals like magnesium, chloride and sulfate).

Lithium thionyl chloride batteries can last 40 years, based on a self-discharge rate of 1% per year.

The important detail here is that ten Angstrons is several times bigger than sodium and chloride ions.

It's surprising there isn't some chemical reaction to precipitate out the sodium and chloride atoms bonded to something else, or whatever.

Perhaps 50% seawater and 50% dilute potassium chloride solution could extend the water supply on a life raft by another 20%?

Perhaps salt is required in the cooking pot and iron chloride Fe2+ Cl2- is formed.

[1] The easier way to precipitate chloride is using silver, you mix the salted water with silver nitrate and the silver chloride goes to the bottom.

Scary chemicals are just a label people put on things, salt is a scary chemical too when you call it natrium chloride.

Salt (sodium chloride) plays a major role in the osmolality (electrolyte concentration) of blood.

It's almost impossible to use a chemical reaction to precipitate sodium and chloride.

Some of that "worse crap" probably contains sodium, just not sodium chloride.