(July 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm)Consilius Wrote: Sure, you could say that there is sodium within salt, but you could not normally extract it in its original form, because its bond to chlorine has made it into salt. Same with the chlorine. NaCl is neither sodium or chlorine, but salt, an entirely different thing.
Exactly. The whole is entirely different from its parts.
(July 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm)Consilius Wrote: Light, and not the grouping of water molecules, makes lakes appear blue.
If that was the case then drops of water would appear blue as well. They don't. Try again.