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sodium chloride- Chemical term for common table salt, a compound composed of equal number of sodium and chlorine atoms. Chemical formula NaCl.
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...Sodium chloride, also known as salt, common salt, table salt, or halite, is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt, it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative. Read full entry
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Sodium Chloride?
I'm doing observations for an
experiment and would like to
know what you would see if you
made sodium chloride a
saturated solution and then
heated it up and made it
saturated again. Would it just
be crystals?
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If the solution is saturated in sodium chloride - then that means no more will go into solution. If you raise the heat - you may make MORE sodium chloide dissolve to form an even MORE saturated solution, but as is cooled the excess sodium chloride would precipitate out. While it is precipitating out ts would act as seed crystals for the saturated solution causing the already saturated sodium chloride to precipitate out. So in the end - you'd still end up with a saturated sodium chloride solution, but it would be less saturated than if you hadn't heated and then cooled it. Of course, with the new crystals in the bottom of your cooled flash you could vigorously shake the solution for about 10 minutes (stoppered of course), and then the solution would again be the same saturated solution as you started with in the first place! |
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Why does sodium chloride have Why does sodium chloride have
to be heated to 800 degrees
before melting, but candle wax
will start to melt at 50
degrees?
I understand how sodium and
chloride, having opposite
charges, have a strong
attraction, but I don't
understand what candle wax has
to do with anything. Does it
have a weak attraction?
Thanks!
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NaCl is a small molecule with strong ionic bonds - it has only Na and Cl to be able to break down to, both of which are much less stable than the NaCl itself. Candle wax on the other hand is a long chain hydrocarbon with relatively weak bonds with a whole variety of smaller organic chemicals it can break down into, so requires far less energy (ie heat) to break down. |
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Sodium chloride has a greater Sodium chloride has a greater
effect on the boiling point of
a solution than an equimolar
amount sucrose. Explain.
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The effect of a substance on the boiling point (or freezing point) of a solution has to do with the number of particles in the solution. Since sodium chloride is an ionic salt it was dissociate once it is in water, creating double the number of particles. So for example 1M solutions of NaCl and sucrose are both mixed up. There would still only be 1 mole of sucrose in that solution, while the sodium chloride solution would contain 1 mole of sodium ions AND 1 mole of chlorine ions for a total of 2 moles of particles. |
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