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Does sodium occur naturally or is it usually in the form of a compound?
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Because sodium reacts with air (and even more vigorously with water), it does not exist in elemental form on Earth. Its most common form is in salt (sodium chloride), from which it can be extracted by the electrolysis of molten salt.
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