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How is taste of chemical compounds determined?
How do we know the taste of compounds, and their smell too, when some of them are poisonous. My textbook had that Lead is sweet in taste, but it's poisonous. So, how exactly do we determine their ...
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Why does sodium bicarbonate taste salty? [duplicate]
I just made myself sodium bicarbonate solution to treat heartburn. I never did this before, I rarely suffer from this condition.
What surprised me is how salty did the solution taste. I thought there ...
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Sweet non-toxic salts
I have recently read one post over here in chemistry exchange about tastes of ionic salts, some described lead and beryllium ones to be sweet but toxic, some my point is there any salt that is ...
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Does heavy water taste sweet?
In this YouTube video from Cody's Lab, Cody claims that heavy water tastes sweet.
He does some fairly convincing comparisons but still expresses a little doubt that the effect is real.
Has this been ...
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Is it the Na+ or the Cl- that gives table salt its taste?
What gives it that salty taste? I'm wondering if it's the $\ce{Na+}$ or the $\ce{Cl-}$. I know that $\ce{KCl}$ also tastes salty, and other salts have different flavours, but where does the saltiness ...
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Do all salts taste salty?
Recently, I am learning the production of soluble and insoluble salts. My friend and I have done this experiment at the school lab.
We wanted to taste them to see whether they are salty are not. The ...
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