Which organ of the body suffers the most from excess salt in a meal at a single sitting? ~

I think you need to get in there and change a word?  Don't you?

Salt is corrosive.  A lot of systems suffer from too much salt.  You get the stomach that gets hit first of all, then the bloodstream carries it to the kidneys and you get high blood pressure.  All kinds of bad things from too much salt, but not as bad as NOT ANY SALT.\




Why does salt speed up corrosion?

Oxygen present in water and salt causes corrosion. Salt is hygroscopic in nature and it attracts the water. Water is required for corrosion and salt speeds up the process.

Corrosion is the transfer of electrons from one substance to the other so salt present in water improves the capability of water to carry electron through redox reactions. Redox reactions are the oxidation and reduction reactions. In oxidation a particular substance loses electrons and in reduction a substance gains electrons which are released by the oxidation. When these both reactions took place it is known as redox (Reduction and Oxidation) reaction.

Rusting in metals is the oxidizing of metal to metal oxide. Water acts as the medium to transfer the electrons and salt helps the corrosion process to speed up the process. It is an electrochemical process in which iron loses electrons by oxidation causing the water to break into hydroxide ions and oxygen. Now the iron that has oxidized reacts with the hydroxide ions and oxygen to form metal oxide. These salts remain even if the water is gone and they again start rusting whenever they come in contact with moisture. That is the reason why the metals get rusted more quickly near the beaches or salty places.


This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 29, 2017 12:47 AM MDT

As the previous response noted.. I wasn't sure about the expression, 'differs the most.'

Im just guessing, but if it was just a single sitting, from personal experience i would say, probably just cotton mouth coupled with bad breath.

I'm not sure of your question, but my tongue seems to bear the brunt of too much NaCl. If it is too salty, I spit it out and throw the rest away. That happened to the LAST can of Spam I bought.

Sorry Randy, but I simply cannot understand your question."Which organ of the body differs the most from excess salt in a meal at a single sitting?" may be the syntactically perfect way to express it, but to my eyes it is a nonsense sentence.

Kidneys. They have to get rid of the stuff.