SALT

 

This post is about three different types of salt: Salt, the mineral, which is used for cooking. SALT, the movie and S. A. L. T. a treaty between the US and former Soviet Union and I'm sure this is the most understood one, amongst the three. Not that it is important.

I wrote an e-mail to Health Canada with the hope to make them understand that when they use the term Sodium to address Salt, they're wrong! Sodium is an element in Periodic Table with Atomic Number 11 and Na as its symbol and is considered a metal! Salt, on the other hand is a mineral and its formula is Na Cl, meaning it is composed of two elements Sodium (Na) and Chlorine (Cl)! The only thing that Sodium as an element and Salt as a mineral share is Sodium (Na) but they neither look alike nor taste the same! In fact you cannot taste Sodium because it's a soft, silvery and highly reactive metal! 

Why a Government organization makes such a silly mistake, remains a mystery to me!

Richard Nixon left and Leonid Brezhnev during SALT I meeting. The one next to Nixon is the long-time serving Foreign Minister of the USSR, Andrei Gromyko. 

SALT, in all capital letters, or S. A. L. T. was a treaty between the US and former Soviet Union to limit the development and usage, later, of the strategic weapons. In fact S. A. L. T., stands for strategic arms limitation talks. This meetings originally took place between Nixon and Brezhnev (or as I would write it in English as Brezhnef, because v at the end in Slavic languages or Cyrillic script pronounces as f but in English doesn't!) and was continued to the time that Ronald Reagan was the president. Did it do any good to the international peace? Probably! But that is not what we're going to discuss here. It was just a brief reference.

Sodium is a silvery and soft, highly reactive metal. Only stupid and ignorant people use this term to address salt that we add to our food

SALT, which in fact shall be written Salt but might confuse people with the mineral, is a movie after a person's surname: Evelyn Salt, with Angelina Julie as the main character. This was an enjoyable and very entertaining movie with great cinematography, acting and story. Many people praise Julie for her performance in different movies. This was my second one from her after Girl Interrupted and she's phenomenal in both, particularly the first. I'm not going to spoil the movie for someone who hasn't seen it yet but have to say that it was unique in story. Probably one of the movies that I easily would give 3.75 out of 5. 

(Photo, top: Evelyn Salt as a CIA agent is interviewing a defector who later blow her cover!)