Chemist often do to avoid confusion with other types of salt. In everyday speech we usually just call it salt because it is shorter and the term has been in use longer.
sodium chloride
Sodium chloride is commonly known as table salt, a compound made of sodium ions (Na+) and chloride ions (Cl-).
Table salt is sodium chloride, or NaCl. It might also be called halite (which is the name of sodium chloride crystals considered as a mineral), though that's more the geological name for salt).
yes, common table salt is sodium chloride.
sodium chloride
Sodium Chloride ,which is capital I in the periodic table, is what "chemists" call salt.
oh my freaking god, what do you need sodium chloride for? it's TABLE SALT!!
It is not an acid. It is a salt. It is actually the salt we call salt (sodium chloride).
NaCl is sodium chloride, a salt - known as table salt.
Sodium chloride, NaCl, is common salt or table salt. Low sodium salt is generally made by mixing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, thereby reducing the amount of sodium in the salt.
Mainly because it is sodium chloride and salt is much easier to say.
Sodium chloride is the sodium salt of hydrogen chloride.
Sodium chloride is an example of a salt or an ionic compound. It is both.
sea salt which is based on the metal sodium.
There is no carbon in sodium chloride. Sodium chloride, what we call table salt, contains sodium and chlorine in a one-to-one ratio. These molecules have no carbon in them at all.
Table salt is sodium chloride, NaCl.
Sodium chloride is a salt.