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...like all animals, needs salt (sodium chloride) physiologically. But his taste for salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peoples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) Most men, however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs...
...Ringer's solution (after Sidney Ringer, English physiologist, 1835-1910) resembles blood serum in composition. One formula contains sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, water...
Eventually some of the "little fellows" broke away, started a central cleaning establishment of their own, provoked a racket war featured by the introduction of caustic soda containing sodium nitrate in the seams and lapels of garments which, when cleaned, exploded. Then the main racket organization found itself with another war?this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends...
...Sodium nitrate fertilizer hand-made commercially from sodium carbonate and nitric acid...
...President Coolidge executed an order raising the tariff on sodium silicofluoride from 25% of its foreign value to 25% of its market value in the U. S. The chemical is used for acid rinses in laundries and for manufacturing enamel ware and opalescent glass. The U. S. consumption is some 5,000,000 lbs. per annum, of which about half is imported, mainly from Denmark...