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Sodium Chloride, NaCl, or table salt, is an ionic compound, so it is setup in a sort of 3d grid form. If you were to apply pressure it, the atoms would attempt to stay in the grid form to continue sharing valence electrons, but with no avail. It is not malleable, it it very brittle.

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