- Table salt is the crystal-like chemical compound sodium chloride. "Sodium" refers to the essential mineral sodium, which is a component of sodium chloride.
- Salt is commonly used to flavor food and to treat icy roads, but sodium is also found in things like baking soda and the vapor that makes traffic lights yellow.
- Sodium is defined as a chemical element of the alkali metal group (of Group 1 [Ia]) of the periodic table. The sodium element is a very soft and silvery-white metal.
- Halogens will often react to sodium, for example, sodium chloride is formed when sodium reacts with a few various halides.
- Sodium alone has few uses, but when used in combination with chlorine, forms common salt, which is commonly used as a flavor enhancer.
- Sodium Bohr Model. Similar to the other members of the alkali metal family, sodium is a silvery-white conductive metal that is soft enough to be cut with a knife.
- Sodium is a member of the alkali metals family. The alkali family consists of elements in Group 1 (IA) of the periodic table.
- When metallic sodium is exposed to air, it loses its silver appearance and develops an opaque grey colour layer which is a coating of sodium oxide.
- Being a very reactive element, it is hard to find sodium in its uncombined state in nature. It can be produced by the electrolysis of dry, molten sodium chloride [1].
- Sodium and hydrogen react above 200ºC (390ºF) to form sodium hydride. Sodium hardly reacts with carbon, but it does react with halogens.