What is the function of sodium chloride?

Answer 1

Sodium chloride-also known as salt-is necessary to help your body maintain fluid balance, help your muscles relax and your nerves transmit signals. Sodium chloride also helps maintain normal blood pressure. One of salt's earliest roles was to preserve food (it does this by drawing out water, preventing bacteria from growing). Today, it gets a bad reputation (and deservedly so) because Americans eat too many processed foods and therefore consume more salt than necessary, which results in adverse health effects.

Although they're two separate minerals, sodium and chloride are usually found together in most foods (and account for about 90 percent of sodium intake in the U.S.); for this reason, they are presented together here.

Answer 2

Some important applications of sodium chloride - preservative for foods
- preparation of sodium, chlorine, sodium hydroxide, hydrogen
- roads deicing
- soaps fabrication
- salts baths
- isotonic solutions etc.

Answer 3

Sodium chloride (table salt) is used to enhance flavor in food, act as a preservative, and help regulate fluid balance in the body. It is also used in various industrial processes such as manufacturing and water treatment.

Answer 4

Ammonium chloride is used in fertilizers, calcium chloride is used in many things such as keeping things dry or hard, and sodium chloride is table salt.

Answer 5

Electrolysis of sodium chloride (in solution or melted) produce sodium hydroxide, hydrogen, chlorine or sodium, chlorine, hydrogen.