Sodium chloride is an example of a common table salt.
Sodium chloride is a compound with the formula NaCl. There is no compound that contains sodium chloride.
NaCl is sodium chloride, or table salt.
compound. the molecule is NaCl.
A molecule. You can have ionic or covalently bound atoms in a molecule. An example of ionic is NaCl, and of covalent is CO2
a molecule dissolves when ions are created. example: NaCl dissolves into Na+ and Cl-
NaCl is a molecule composed of two atoms Na and Cl.
NaCl
One atom of chlorine per molecule of NaCl.
A molecule of NaCl (Sodium chloride) is comprised of Sodium and Chlorine.
Today NaCl is considered the formula unit of sodium chloride, not the true chemical formula of the molecule; NaCl form very complex lattices, as other ionic salts.
NaCl
The term molecule is not adequate for sodium chloride because NaCl form large lattices. More exact is formula unit - NaCl.
Cl2 is covalent. NaCl is ionic.
The meaning is that only one atom of this element exist in the molecule. Example: sodium chloride - NaCl.