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Posted by Charlie Bress on February 18, 2007, 1:22 pm
My, my all this hairsplitting when you have lost sight of the problem.
The OP in a second note said the friend was on a salt restricted diet.
In that context the real concern is not the sodium chloride, per se,
both the sodium sensitivity of a person with hypertension.
You will notice that on the nutrition label there is no number for salt, but
there is one for sodium.
So ther right answer is not if there is salt or not, but is there added
sodium.
Yes there is. Is it a problem? Thats what needs to be answered. Another
poster who understood
the question has answered it.
>>Nothing like splitting hairs.
>
> It's not "splitting hairs" to draw a distinction between two things that
> are
> not the same.
>
>> There are lots of different kinds of 'salt',
>>since you want to be so technical. Which salt did the OP mean?
>
> Now who's splitting hairs?
>
> In the absence of any qualifiers indicating otherwise, *most* people
> assume
> the word "salt" to mean common salt, NaCl. If you supposed, even for a
> moment,
> that the OP meant anything *but* common salt, then you should seek
> therapy.
>
>>Sodium is
>>an ingredient in salt (sodium chloride), and the softener puts it in the
>>water.
>
> Sodium is also an ingredient in lye; applying your criteria, a water
> softener
> makes water lye-like.
>
>> I believe this is what the OP wanted to know.
>
> Then you have a reading comprehension problem, as "what the OP wanted to
> know"
> is very clearly stated in plain English in the title of the thread: "Does
> it
> [a water softener] make water salty?"
>
> The correct answer to that question is "no".
>
> --
> Regards,
> Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
>
> It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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