Questions for any chemistry geeks present.

Seeing this, my immediate thoughs are:

- Any "salt water" solution we experience is likely not actually salt crystals in water, but ionic Na+ and Cl-. And when we produce salt through evaporation, that's actually the process shown in this video occurring, with fresh crystals of salt forming from the brine.

- What we taste as "salt" isn't actually the taste of salt, but of an Na+ + Cl- ionic solution, dissolved in our saliva. I'm not even sure we could physiologically taste salt itself, but it would likely not be the same.

Any validity to either of these thoughts?