Posted by tealady on September 19, 2003, at 7:23:29
In reply to Re: NaCl, Epsom salts .. Lar? » tealady, posted by Larry Hoover on September 19, 2003, at 6:29:02
Hi Lar,
Your back! Gee your posting early...or not asleep yet?>> Leave as a solution and just use a couple of drops at a time instead of salt, say in oatmeal, or on steak..that's been heaps for me!
>> I also use the epsom salts in baths.
>I'm glad I didn't reply when I first read your post. I was too tired to catch that you were recrystallizing the salt.
I wasn't. I shouldn't have added that comment I guess. I was just giving another use for the packet of epsom salts I buy to start with>Frankly, I have no idea if it will work. You may be leaving the magnesium behind just as much as you are sulphate ions. Or, you may not be doing either, as all the ions are readily soluble.
Oh, this was the idea, I got from a chemist. But I was uncertain whether I was getting the sulphate or not. You wouldn't want to take too much if you couldn't be sure you were getting rid of the sodium sulphate.
8 teaspoons of magnesium sulphate (Epsom Salt) to four teaspoons of sodium chloride . ie in the ratio (by weight) 2:1, although the requirement is for twice as many sodium atoms as magnesium - the chemistry works out a bit odd, but is OK.
Magnesium Sulphate + 2xSodium Chloride=Magnesium Chloride+ Sodium Sulphate
246 grams 2 x 58 grams 95 grams+(126 grams H2O)+142 grams
this doesn't balance without the water that comes with Epsom Salt (this amounts to another 126 grams and would show up on the right hand side of the equation.
Cool the concentrated solution of the two salts then place the cold liquid in a freezer at below - 4 degrees Celsius. This should cause the sodium sulphate to crystallize out (a bit jelly like but it is OK).
Filter the cold solution through anything clean and fine meshed (coffee filter paper?). (I used a clean piece of an old laddered stocking)
The solution of mostly magnesium chloride can be re-frozen and strained (twice)to separate out some more sodium sulphate .My first go (last year), I tried it the other way around ( 4 spons NaCl to 2 spoomns Epsom salts), and it came out OK, very saltytaste. Still good as a replacement salt.
My last go I used the above (8 spoons Epsoms salts to 2 spoons NaCl)and I think I had a some sulphate left in.
So I was thinking of just trying for a Na, Mg salt mix again..maybe reversing again or equal spoons of each and using that as a salt replacement
>What makes the idea of using a solution so useful is that the dose is infinitely variable, once you have the concentration of the solution worked out.Well it was good to use as a condiment. Just not completely certain it works,
I thought some others might be interested if it did work. Perhaps not if it may leave some sulphate in.
I definitely felt like I was getting some magnesium this way.....even if I was getting some sulphate as well.Thanks Lar, Jan
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