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Sodium is one of the most common used element in the world. It is used to for example make salt, and stuff that you use to unclog your drains. Sodium is used for a lot more things as well for example sodium chloride is very important for animal nutrition, many of sodium’s compounds are very important to make paper, glass, soap, textile petroleum, chemicals and metals. Sodium is also used in preparing tetraethyl lead, and it is a very important heat transfer agent.

Sodium has a lot of compounds, like just common table salt (sodium chloride, NaCl), soda ash (sodium carbonate, Na2CO3), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3, bicarb), and caustic soda (sodium hydroxide, NaOH. The word Soda is used instead of sodium, because sodium comes from the word soda.

Caustic Soda, and Sodium Chloride (salt)

There are some environmental effects of sodium as well, for example: sodium in its powdered form is extremely explosive in water and it is a poison combined and uncombined with many other elements, which can make it harmful to animals and humans. Also sodium is not movable in its solid form, although it absorbs moisture very easily. Once liquid, sodium hydroxide leaches rapidly into the soil, and that could possible contaminate water sources.

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