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What is the structure of NaCl gas? If you heat a crystal of solid NaCl at low pressure, does it sublimate into pairs of atoms?

This is so fascinating! Would you be able to expand on it some more?

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we actually only encounter salt as a solid most of the time. when salt dissolves in water, it is part of the liquid, but it's not liquid salt exactly - that would be molten salt, and i think it requires much higher temperatures than we see on earth.

the gas phase nacl we detected in orion is just gas, not plasma - the nacl is not ionized. when we see nacl, it is as a gas, but we think that most nacl in space is solid. it's integrated into the dust particles that pervade space, and on those particles, it is solid.

we do detect na and cl on their own in elemental form in gas too. when there's enough ultraviolet radiation around, the nacl gets dissociated (split) into its constituent atoms. we see this in the diffuse interstellar medium, ie, not close to any particular stars

"I am the source!"

For the not astrophysicist: most of the time NaCl is solid of a liquid in our realm. It’s so interesting that most of the time, most of the places it’s in gas (I assume actually plasma?) form.

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Interesting!

As an aside, where are the other elements beyond Iron coming from if not stars?

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That's interesting! Thanks for the information.

No, assuming that you're not drinking enough to actually give you hypertension, it won't damage your kidneys. Your kidneys will filter the fluid it "sees" and as long as that fluid is coming through at a reasonable pressure, you're not really overloading the kidneys. The kidneys have immense reserve.

Yes but the question seems deeply confused about this. The person you're responding to almost certainly already knows it.

Maybe in the past, but now it's all handled by computers that can do this relatively easily.

There is somebody, usually the trial coordinator who takes care of the randomization and the linking of the randomization card to the patient. In the modern era, the computer "knows" who is assigned to what without necessitating a human to know.

I love people like you who do things like this. Faith in humanity somewhat restored

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The Great Apes represent a family (Hominidae) not a species. Below family is genus and then species (using the modern basic taxonomic system).