# Dead Sea bath salts turning into liquid over time

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-bath-salts-turning-into-liquid-over-time/830263 "2019-02-26T23:35:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-bath-salts-turning-into-liquid-over-time/830263/21 "2019-03-01T22:46:26Z")

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Kanicbird: get a piece of felt to put the salt on. That should save our furniture.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-bath-salts-turning-into-liquid-over-time/830263/22 "2019-03-01T22:54:34Z")

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> [@Riemann](#):
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> Poor Bernard. Their spelling is terrible, I try (so _hard_) to get them to spell you’re name right.

Trouble is it’s a German name,  
They love e before i.  
[Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann)  
Someone probably made a typo in 1826.

Plus, you left the h out of Bernhard!

:smack: for me and :smack: for you,

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-bath-salts-turning-into-liquid-over-time/830263/23 "2019-03-01T23:01:55Z")

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> [@Squink](#):
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> Plus, you left the h out of Bernhard!
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> :smack: for me and :smack: for you,

Do you hear a whooshing sound?  
Look a little more carefully and what I wrote - their (sp), you’re (sp), try so _ **hard** _ to spell your name right.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-bath-salts-turning-into-liquid-over-time/830263/24 "2019-03-02T00:40:11Z")

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> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Oh well, such is a life with a Himalayan salt candle.

What a poetic epitaph.

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