I'm just wondering...

Well yeah, there are all kinds of salts, some inedible, which is why I was trying to refer to it as 'table' salt... I just get the impression Brysing's up to something here. ?_?

No, I am not "up to something". There are, of course,other salts that can be made in a laboratory; but not sodium chloride. The only source is from the sea. Rock salt is mined from deposits of salt laid down by prehistoric oceans. You can "extract" salt by evaporating sea water. But you can no more make salt than you can make Gold or Silver, or many other metals. Alchemists tried to do those things many years ago. They failed!

Science has has gone a long way since back when. We have done things we thought where impossible. We keep proving that's nothing impossible

And many things we once thought possible have proved to be impossible!

Though in theory, if we can somehow combine atoms of two elements, Na and Cl, couldn't we have the product of salt? Though of course not natural... but if those two elements are its components, and if we had a method to actually combine atoms such as that, couldn't it then make salt?

When I say make, I mean combining two elements and then that together is then a substance where the properties are different to the two respected elements.

It also sounds like Brysing is saying that Salt(NaCl) is an element?

Well long ago. We are progressing not degression

Osiris, we have now gone off the original thread which was about Alchemy. But if you really think that nothing is impossible, then you are being silly! Try growing wings!

We can clone a bird so sure no problem. Let's get back to the subject.alchemy is amazing

Brysing, you can make sodium chloride in a laboratory. If you google 'Chemistry sodium chlorine' on the first page of results is a YouTube video of a man combining the elements sodium and chlorine to make table salt in a laboratory.

I'm not disagreeing that rock salt is mined, I'm not disagreeing that you can extract salt by evaporating sea water. But it is patently untrue to claim that you can't combine the elements sodium and chlorine to make sodium chloride.