Seawater is a good place to find Sodium.
Sodium is the 6th most abundant element on earth. It is never found as a single element; instead you will only find it in compounds (like table salt).
Sodium is the fourth most abundant element on earth
Sodium is a compound.
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Sodium is highly, highly reactive, so it will always be found in nature combined with some other element. This is true for all alkali and alkali earth metals (the 2 rightmost columns on the periodic table, minus hydrogen).
For example as sodium chloride (NaCl) - the mineral halite.
where was sodium found and when
The element Sodium is found as ions in a compound in: * baking soda (Sodium bicarbonate), * baking powder (Sodium bicarbonate and Tartaric acid), and * salt (Sodium chloride).
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sodium & barium
Sodium is not found in nature as a pure element because it is very reactive.