Salt World Records

Yanhao Deng of Chenzhou, Hunan, made 1.428 moles of solid sodium chloride, about 83 grams of table salt, in three minutes in NoBook Lab, a virtual chemistry lab app, starting from an empty workbench. On a tablet, Yanhao sets out a 1,000 mL beaker, tweezers, sodium metal and concentrated hydrochloric acid, reacts the sodium in the acid and tips the white salt into a test tube in two batches; the tube's readout lists sodium chloride with small amounts of five other substances and no liquid. RecordSetter matched a phone video of the tablet and a smartwatch stopwatch with the tablet's own screen recording: the tube reaches 1.428 moles at 2:56 on the stopwatch and still reads 1.428 as the stopwatch passes 3:00. Table salt, the hard way.

Anthony V. placed 350 sunflower seeds in his mouth at once. WARNING: Stuffing food in mouth can be extremely dangerous. Please do not attempt this record unless you are above the age of 18 and trained as a professional stunt performer. We will not accept submissions in this category from minors.

G. Kavin Pranao from SPK Schools in Namakkal, India created the Indian National Flag using salt. The finished artwork measured 20 meters wide and 30 meters long. Dr. S. Prabu Kumar, chairman of the school institution, organized the record.

Students and staff members at Indu International School made a salt mosaic that measures 900 square meters. They set the record to raise awareness about global warming.

A student at Indu International School made a flag of India using salt that measures 150 square meters.

A student at Chinmaya Vidyalaya Matriculation School in Coimbatore, India created a salt mosaic that measures 41.60 square meters.