When the sodium chloride dissolves into the pineapple it will break apart into sodium and chloride ions.
The sodium ion will then react with the malic and citric acids present in the pineapple to form neutral sodium salts.
Acids normally have a tart or sour taste but when they are converted into neutral compounds they lose this sourness, and so the pineapple tastes sweeter.
There’s no better book than one you have to read with a dictionary at hand. My vocabulary is always better after I finish a good Mercedes Lackey book, and A Game of Thrones has me walking around with a pocket dictionary in my bag.
I make a game out of it—to figure out the definition of a new word from context before I look it up in the dictionary.
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