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The appearance of "Sodium Chloride" is a silvery white soft metal substance with the atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.990.Its a white powder like substance and is of high importance with the working of our brains.

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This is a chemical compound with the chemical formula unit NaCl, solid, transparent, an ionic salt, soluble in water, useful for life, molar mass 58,44, crystallized in a face-centered cubic system, forming lattices, a food additive etc.

Some characteristics of sodium chloride are:

Formula unit: NaCl

Molar mass: 58,439 769 28 g

Chemical bond: ionic

Lattice constant: 5,65 Å

Aspect: transparent

Solubility in water at 20 0C: 360,9 g/L

Density: 2,165 g/cm3.

Mohs hardness: 2,5

Knoop hardness: approx. 16

Crystalline structure: face-centered cubic

Melting point: 801 0C

Boiling point: 1 413 0C

Lattice constant: 564,02 pm

Specific heat capacity: 36,79 J/K.mol

Refractive index: 1,5442

Thermal conductivity: 6,5 W/m.K at 25 0C

Dielectric constant for 102-2.5x1010 Hz: 5,9 at 25 0C

Thermal expansion

at 75 K: 19 1/K

at 273 K: 40 1/K

at 1000 K: 69,5 1/K

Reflection loss: 7,5 % for two surfaces at 10 µm

Specific heat: 0,20 cal/(g K) at 273 K

Debye temperature: 321 K

Bandgap: 9 eV

Young's modulus: 39,96 GPa

Rupture modulus: 0,00393 GPa

Shear modulus: 8,97 GPa

Bulk modulus: 24,32 GPa

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It is common table salt. Have you never eaten fish and chips? It is a white crystalline powder.

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sodium chloride is a white crystalline solid. the crystals are cubic.

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Sodium chloride crystalline structure is face-centered cubic.

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Solid sodium chloride contain crystals.

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White coloured solid

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