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Sodium chloride-also known as salt-is necessary to help your body maintain fluid balance, help your muscles relax and your nerves transmit signals. Sodium chloride also helps maintain normal blood pressure. One of salt's earliest roles was to preserve food (it does this by drawing out water, preventing bacteria from growing). Today, it gets a bad reputation (and deservedly so) because Americans eat too many processed foods and therefore consume more salt than necessary, which results in adverse health effects.
Although they're two separate minerals, sodium and chloride are usually found together in most foods (and account for about 90 percent of sodium intake in the U.S.); for this reason, they are presented together here.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 9y agoSome important applications of sodium chloride - preservative for foods
- preparation of sodium, chlorine, sodium hydroxide, hydrogen
- roads deicing
- soaps fabrication
- salts baths
- isotonic solutions etc.
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∙ 10y agoAmmonium chloride is used in fertilizers, calcium chloride is used in many things such as keeping things dry or hard, and sodium chloride is table salt.
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∙ 6y agoElectrolysis of sodium chloride (in solution or melted) produce sodium hydroxide, hydrogen, chlorine or sodium, chlorine, hydrogen.
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What is the function of the sodium chloride in the procedure in salting-out effect?
sodium chloride helps to decrease the solubility of an organic compound therefore its easier to extract an organic compound almost completely from water
Is an electric current conducted by a solution of sodium chloride?
Solid sodium chloride is not an electrolyte.Sodium chloride in water solutions or molten sodium chloride are electrolytes.
Sodium chloride is formed from ions and chloride?
Not quite right. Sodium chloride is formed from sodium ions (Na+) and chloride ions (Cl-)
What is the word equation for reaction to prepare Sodium Chloride?
sodium plus chlorine yields sodium chloride
What intermolecular forces are present in sodium chloride?
Sodium chloride does not exist as molecules.
What is the use for sodium chloride in powerade?
Sodium chloride function as electolytes.
Function of sodium chloride?
Sodium (from sodium chloride) is indispensable for lifebecause it is important for:- regulation of blood pressure, pH, blood volume, osmotic pressure- transmission of nervous impulse- correct neurons function
What is the function of sodium chloride NaCI?
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Why your bodies need sodium chloride?
Sodium (from sodium chloride) is indispensable for lifebecause it is important for:- regulation of blood pressure, pH, blood volume, osmotic pressure- transmission of nervous impulse- correct neurons function
What are the functions of sodium chloride?
Sodium (from sodium chloride) is indispensable for life because it is important for:- regulation of blood pressure, pH, blood volume, osmotic pressure- transmission of nervous impulse- correct neurons function
Why does your body need sodium chloride?
Sodium (from sodium chloride) is indispensable for lifebecause it is important for:- regulation of blood pressure, pH, blood volume, osmotic pressure- transmission of nervous impulse- correct neurons function
What type of atom is in sodium chloride?
Sodium chloride has two atoms in the formula unit (NaCl): sodium and chlorine.
Which substance is a compound carbon chloride sodium chloride sodium?
Sodium chloride is a compound.
Is sodium chloride carcinogenic?
Sodium chloride is not a cause of cancer.
What does Sodium chloride have?
Sodium chloride is formed from sodium and chlorine.
Is sodium chloride or sodium fluoride stronger?
sodium chloride
Why is sodium chloride different from sodium chloride crystals in its electricity conductivity?
Solid sodium chloride is not an electrolyte.Sodium chloride in water solutions or molten sodium chloride are electrolytes.
