White gold - Facts about sugar and salt

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Christopher Columbus introduced salt to the New World in 1943 on his second voyage.

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Answer explanation

He didn't introduced salt. He introduced sugar to the New World.

If you put sugar into a vase of flowers, the flowers last longer.

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Answer explanation

In addition to acting as a sweetener and preservative in food, sugar can keep your beautiful bouquet of flowers fresh, prolonging their vase life by days or even weeks!

If your dog or cat has fleas, and they are now living in your carpets, put some salt on the carpets

and leave it for 24 hours. This kills all the fleas.

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Answer explanation

It's not 24 hours. You have to leave the salt on your carpet for 12 hours.

Sure and sugar are the only two words in the English language that begin with 'su' and are pronounced 'sh'.

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Answer explanation

These words have Anglo-French and Latin origin, which explains their pronunciation. They used to be spelt differently and were a lot more representative of their pronunciation

Scientists use salt to make different kinds of plastic, e.g. for food packaging.

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Answer explanation

Researchers created two new types of polymers from sugar bases, iodide and isomannide. Isomannide can be developed into a material that stretches like rubber, and the iodide base performs like hard plastic. Both of the compounds contain ring-like structures made of the same atoms of plastic.

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