Can the infallible Catholic Church give me the chemical equation of the reaction which took place when Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt?

The Church does not exist to dispense chemical equations. But your question is not based upon reason. Probably Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by natural agencies set in movement by God, with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Rock-salt abounds in that region, and an upheaval of that material could easily have overwhelmed and embedded Lot’s wife because of her delay, leaving a standing hillock of salt as her memorial.

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