We sprinkle salt on dead animals to decompose them easily which means that microbes work better on things in which salt is added but on the other hand we we add salt to pickle to check microbial growth. How is it possible that on one hand salt doesn't all (2024)
Dear student, I dont think that sprinkling salt on dead animals let them decompose faster. It is to temporarily preserve the dead animals as highly saline environments prevent microbial growth and inhibit decomposition (that is why many packaged food products have a high salt content). However, the salt can only inhibit decomposition, it cannot prevent it. Eventually the body will decompose. However, it can probably keep animals away as it interferes with the scent.
So salt only inhibits decomposition, never promotes it.
Sprinkling table salt over corpse to hasten disintegration and keep carnivores and nibblers off is a feature of ritualistic burial. We describe an unusual murder concealment wherein assailant put quantum of table salt over and around dead body while burying in jungle to hasten disintegration.
However, the salt can only inhibit decomposition, it cannot prevent it. Eventually the corpse will decompose. However, it can probably keep animals away as it interferes with the scent.
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