General Information of Sodium Chloride
Sodium Chloride is known as salt or table salt with the formula, NaCl. Sodium Chloride (NaCl) has a molar mass of 58.44gmol. Salt is normally found in nature as a rock/solid and is called rock salt, which we mine. Another place it is found in nature is in the sea, which is why it is named sea salt. Salt can be known by its mineral name as well, Halite. Since Sodium Chloride, Salt, Halite, is soluble in water, we can use salt as food preservation or use it to cook with or put on top of food like chips, french fries, etc. Salt is very important and essential to the body, without salt in our system we would die, but at the same time if we have too much salt we could also die from that. Salt can be dangerous if consumed too much, also in the long run can cause heart problems.
Use of Salt:
Salt can be used in many different ways, back in the ancient times salt was used to mainly preserve foods which we still use salt to do that today. Another use is to use it when we cook, sometimes when boiling water we put in salt. The most common way we use salt, sometimes over do it too, is that we put it on our foods like chips, french fries, noodles, etc. Sometimes we over use salt on our foods and it can cause heart problems. A common way to use salt in cold places then get a lot of snow or freeze a lot causing icy roads, is that we use salt to de-ice the roads. Salt can also be found in rubber items or something else and also used in Chemical industries to help create other compounds of some sort.
Properties of Sodium Chloride:
The density of Sodium Chloride is 2.165 g cm^-3. The melting point of Sodium Chloride is 801 °C, 1474 °F and the boiling point is 1413 °C, 2575 °F. The structure of Sodium Chloride in crystal form is cubic like and the composition by mass percent of Sodium (Na) is 39.34% and Chlorine (Cl) is 60.66%. To get the composition by mass percent of Sodium Chloride, I used this equation to find the percent of each element: (Mass of Element ÷ Molar Mass) x 100 = %, so for Sodium (Na) it would go like so (22.99 ÷ 58.44) x 100 = 39.34% and for Chlorine (Cl): (35.45 ÷ 58.44) x 100 = 60.66%. The type of bond of Sodium Chloride is Ionic Bond because it is two Ions bonding together to make an Ionic compound (learned via class). There's not many reactions for Table Salt, just commonly used for food and such.
Use of Salt:
Salt can be used in many different ways, back in the ancient times salt was used to mainly preserve foods which we still use salt to do that today. Another use is to use it when we cook, sometimes when boiling water we put in salt. The most common way we use salt, sometimes over do it too, is that we put it on our foods like chips, french fries, noodles, etc. Sometimes we over use salt on our foods and it can cause heart problems. A common way to use salt in cold places then get a lot of snow or freeze a lot causing icy roads, is that we use salt to de-ice the roads. Salt can also be found in rubber items or something else and also used in Chemical industries to help create other compounds of some sort.
Properties of Sodium Chloride:
The density of Sodium Chloride is 2.165 g cm^-3. The melting point of Sodium Chloride is 801 °C, 1474 °F and the boiling point is 1413 °C, 2575 °F. The structure of Sodium Chloride in crystal form is cubic like and the composition by mass percent of Sodium (Na) is 39.34% and Chlorine (Cl) is 60.66%. To get the composition by mass percent of Sodium Chloride, I used this equation to find the percent of each element: (Mass of Element ÷ Molar Mass) x 100 = %, so for Sodium (Na) it would go like so (22.99 ÷ 58.44) x 100 = 39.34% and for Chlorine (Cl): (35.45 ÷ 58.44) x 100 = 60.66%. The type of bond of Sodium Chloride is Ionic Bond because it is two Ions bonding together to make an Ionic compound (learned via class). There's not many reactions for Table Salt, just commonly used for food and such.