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Chemistry with a grain of salt (Christmas Lecture 2023)

Salt has been known to mankind since the earliest of times and it is one of the most ancient chemicals to be produced, shipped and traded on large scale across the world. It has been exploited for a variety of technical applications and it is still nowadays an essential commodity and the starting material for countless chemical processes. The science and technology of the obtainment and the processing of this invaluable material will be described, with several eye-catching and even explosive demonstrations, also touching upon its rich history and influence in art, society and popular culture. --- Talk originally developed for the festival "A Summer of Science" at Nantwich Museum in Cheshire, UK (August 2023), adapted and expanded for the Christmas Lecture of the course "Principles of the Living Matter" at Humanitas Medical University HUNIMED (13/12/2023).