Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
by kerkeslager on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:20AM
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The way I learned it, if you mix an acid and a base, you get a salt and water. Table salt (NaCl) is the result of mixing hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH):
HCl + NaOH -> HOH (water) + NaCl
But if you mix a different acid and a different base, you'll get a different salt, for example if you mix sulphuric acid and calcium hydroxide, you get calcium sulfate:
H2SO4 + Ca(OH)2 -> 2(HOH) + CaSO4
Calcium sulfate is just a different salt.
Re:LSD Chemist William Pickard to Be Released from Prison
by jschwartzi on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:14AM
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Organic chemicals are often “salted” to cause them to precipitate out of the solution they’re synthesized in. It’s a salt in the chemical sense, but not in the culinary sense.
If someone asked me what the typical salt was I'd say table salt