What can NaCl do to your life?

Answer 1

Some important applications of sodium chloride

- seasoning for foods

- preservative for foods

- preparation of sodium, chlorine, sodium hydroxide, hydrogen

- roads deicing

- soaps fabrication

- salts baths

- isotonic solutions

- sodium is indispensable for life

etc.

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Quite a few things you can do with NaCl - commonly known as "table salt".

1. Season food with it to enhance flavor
2. Add to control the rate of fermentation in bread dough
3. Food preservation, especially meats - like ham, bacon, sausage, jerky, etc.
4. Dehydrating agent (which is one of the reasons it helps with food preservation)
5. Add it to water to make it boil at a higher temperature and assist with cooking - quite useful in cooking pasta as long as you don't oversalt and ruin the flavor
6. Spread it on ice to lower the melting point temperature and encourage melting of the ice (de-icing)
7. Split it by electrolysis to get chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide via the reaction: 2 NaCl + 2 H2O → Cl2 + H2 + 2 NaOH
8. Convert it, via the Solvay process sodium carbonate and calcium chloride
9. Use in catheter flush injections
10. Use as a carriier for intravenous infusions of medicinces
11. Cleaning objects such as contact lenses in the form of saline.
12. Sodium chloride solution (as a mist) inhalation can remove certain bacteria in body secretions.
13. Use it for ion exchange in water softeners
14. To flocculate and increase the density of the drilling fluid to overcome high downwell gas pressures
15. Sodium chloride is the principal extinguishing agent in fire extinguishers (Met-L-X, Super D) used on combustible metal fires such as magnesium, potassium, sodium, and NaK alloys (Class D)
16. Salt water can be an effective emetic (somehting that will make you throw up) to be given to someone who has injested poison
17. Abrasive rub that can be rinsed away
18. Making sample holders for IR-spectroscopy in the 200 nm to 20 µm range (where transmission through the NaCl sample holder walls is around 90%)

There are plenty of other uses, but this should be a good start.

Answer 2

Sodium chloride applications

- seasoning for foods

- preservative for foods

- preparation of sodium, chlorine, sodium hydroxide

- roads deicing

- soaps fabrication

etc.

Answer 3

Sodium is indispensable for life because it is important for:

- regulation of blood pressure, pH, blood volume, osmotic pressure

- transmission of nervous impulse

- correct neurons function

Answer 4

Salt (sodium chloride) is the most important food additive.