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How do smelling salts work?

You’ve seen them in movies and in old TV shows, where a woman faints, and a husband or police officer or someone gets out the smelling salts to revive her. But what are smelling salts and how exactly do they work? In a nutshell, the secret ingredient is ammonia, and if you’ve ever gotten a good whiff of ammonia, you know that it would wake the dead.

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