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How do we know a nerve agent is tasteless?
According to the BBC, the nerve agent sarin is a tasteless liquid. How do we know that this liquid has no taste, given that anyone to have (not) tasted it in any meaningful quantity presumably died ...
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The "hazardousness" of artificially made sweteeners
In school I learned of the "possible hazardity of artificial sweeteners." But that was some time ago, now. I think that science should have caught up by now.
My question is as follows.
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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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