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Table salt

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Table salt, also known as sodium chloride is a condiment often used by Humans.

Due to its unique chemical properties, disrupting the osmotic balance and electrical conductivity of their cells, table salt could act as a defense against the Fendahl. The Doctor could kill Fendahleen by firing table salt out of a rifle. The power of salt to ward off evil, then, entered into Human folklore in the form of throwing salt over one's shoulder for good luck. (DW: Image of the Fendahl) The Hervoken were also similarly vulnerable to salt. (NSA: Forever Autumn)

The Tenth Doctor ate food containing salt in order to eject the Cyanide from his body. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

[edit] Minor reference

Adric managed to irk Tegan by requesting that she pass her "the sodium chloride". At first, she did not know what he meant. (DW: Four to Doomsday)

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