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![dr_andrealove Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::848945411100471296.png) Andrea C. Love, PhD [@dr_andrealove](/creator/twitter/dr_andrealove) on x 33.4K followers
Created: 2025-07-26 00:37:58 UTC

A chemical compound is NOT the same as its elemental parts.

That’s why table salt, sodium chloride (NaCl) doesn’t explode in water.

Sodium explodes in water!

If anti-vaccine activists used that logic, they SHOULD be saying table salt explodes in water.

But they’re not.

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