Sodium Chloride 
 

NaCl     NaCl, salt, is essential to all life.  It has many
different uses.  Sodium Chloride plays a part in disinfecting contact lenses.  It helps to kill germs and prevent infections.   Saline solution is nothing more than a sterile salt solution.  This rinses away other solutions that might be on the lenses.  It also cleans the lenses in a heating system.  Saline is used to store the lenses.  Soaking of the lenses helps to restore moisture.
 
 

References:
www.mic-d.com
www.medicinenet.com
www.nrl.navy.mil
www.aclens.com

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