Salt

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  1. Ai chan

    Ai chan Queen of Yuri, Devourer of Traps, Thrusted Witch

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    Salt is very good not only for seasoning your food, preserving your ingredients, blocking ghosts from entering your home or repelling annoying people. It is also good for repelling rats! That's right, rats! Ai-chan's home had a rat infestation lately and Ai-chan put a line of salt at the door where the rat was supposed to be coming in from.

    The next day, there was no more rat. Ai-chan waited for a week, while keeping that line of salt at the door and the hole it's supposed to come in from. It really works, there has been no more rats since then. But why?

    Ai-chan isn't Todd Howard. Being a scientist, Ai-chan wanted to know why it works instead of just accepting that it just works. So guys, your theories, why does it work? How could salt repel rats?

    What other alternative, unconventional salt applications do you know of?

    Answer below.
     
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  2. chamchaworld

    chamchaworld Lazy Chibi

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    For camping, maybe.
     
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  3. novalance

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    This channel has something you might use... Listed a few videos from him that might be of interest.







     
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  4. DontLookDown

    DontLookDown One with the bed

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    Throw it at your friends to ward away demons. Or just convey your love to them. Or just make them angry.

    Basically just throw it at your friends and see what happens. It'll probably be funny. Probably
     
  5. replay

    replay ★Milk and Honey smelling Merchant★

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    @Ai chan . . . . . .
    I heard that salt was said to purify evil. . . .
    and you used it. . .
    then rats don't come no more. . . .
    are you sure those are really rats!!!!???
     
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  6. Vanidor

    Vanidor Well-Known Member

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    Raises their blood pressure so they have to go to the doctors, but the rat doctors are busy banging their nurses so the high blood pressure rat spends all its time in the waiting room and don't come back to your place.
     
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  7. rook14

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    Its good for wound healing.
     
  8. Ai chan

    Ai chan Queen of Yuri, Devourer of Traps, Thrusted Witch

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    Unfortunately, getting fox or wolf urine may be a much bigger problem than the problem it's meant to solve.

    Should Ai-chan reclassify them as evil spirits then? For sure Ai-chan's mom won't come to our house if Ai-chan said that to her.
     
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  9. Amaruna Myu

    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    I think it works against slug
    and people
     
  10. mm38910

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    stops termite from advancing
     
  11. IAmViruz

    IAmViruz FGO Degen

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    I take a bath with salt water when there's a sudden rash all over my body with unknown causes. Works every single time.
     
  12. CyberCypher

    CyberCypher Air Breather

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    There is a solar power plant in the US that uses salt as a form of heat reservoir or heat battery. Basically the salt is heated , then the heated salt is used to boil water. The reason they heat the salt is to hold the heat for longer making it possible to use solar power even in the middle of the night as long as the salt is still hot enough
     
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  13. ongoingwhy

    ongoingwhy Meat Pie Lover

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    Rats actually eat salt. I think they just ate so much of your salt that they died from sodium poisoning.

    Also, this is the most effective method of killing rats.

     
  14. Lazriser

    Lazriser Well-Known Member

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    Soap, marine habitat, and torture.
     
  15. Ratatoskr

    Ratatoskr [Aruruu's proud dad] [The False Gentleman]

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    My approach is old school. Lay a trap to see where they burrowed their way in, find the hole and seal it with plaster. No more rats inside the house.
    Still can't find a way to completely remove monitor lizard.
     
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  16. Lswarmruler

    Lswarmruler 『Anya, The Cutest Esper Loli』《Spy x Family Manga》

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    Hmm, salt makes blood pressure higher, maybe those rats have hypertension n heart problem.
     
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    Rats? The skaven want to infiltrate your HOME! Quick! Check your sewers! There might be a tunnel that leads to those vermin under-city!
     
  18. RR Vocaloid

    RR Vocaloid RoyalRoad.com Slepragt

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    CARTHAGO DELENDA EST
     
  19. Nargol

    Nargol Evangelist. Candy-san. Pope of the Cult of Pyoo

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    Salt only makes me think of this song

     
  20. Arcadia Blade

    Arcadia Blade ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ You can do it!!

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    I never tried that on a rat before. And i sure as hell won't fight them since i even saw a rat the size of my hand. Even worse is my bro told me that he even saw a rat the size of my thigh(which is actually quite big).