Chlorine. Note that this forms table salt only when it combines with the particular metal sodium.
Table salt is sodium chloride, NaCl; the metal is sodium.
Sodium metal can react with the nonmetal chlorine to form sodium chloride, which is a white crystalline compound commonly known as table salt.
Table salt is formed from sodium ion ( an alkali metal) and chloride ion ( a halogen)
I'm pretty sure combined they form table salt because sodium and chlorine make salt and they have similar properties and it said so in my textbook so yes I think it forms table salt. An acid + metal hydroxide => Salt and water Therefore Hydrochloric acid + Sodium hydroxide => Sodium Chloride + water
This element is chlorine (Cl).
This element is chlorine (Cl).
This element is chlorine (Cl).
The metal is Sodium (Na) and the halogen is Chlorine (Cl) - thus table salt is NaCl.
Sodium as an element is metal but as compounds with chlorine,florine,iodine etc they become salt compounds.
The generic term would be "salt"; not the specific "table salt" sodium chloride, but the general term.
Partially, since sodium is technically a metal.
Common table salt is NaCl I think, hence the metal of the salt will be sodium (Na)