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Elemental sodium actually exists as a metallically bonded solid. It is customary to write the formula of solid sodium as "Na". It would not be correct to write "Na2", because in a metallically bonded solid every atom is equally strongly bonded to each of its several nearest neighbors, always more than 2, in the crystal lattice.

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