Sodium chloride (aka salt) is used in medical treatments such as IV infusions and catheter flushes. Learn more about home and medical uses for salt.

Sodium chloride “is one of the simplest and most understood things in the world,” Dr. Brown said. “And yet Journaux just discovered a new form of it that had never been seen before.” Image ...

Sodium and chlorine, two highly reactive elements, combine to form the stable compound sodium chloride (ordinary table salt). Questions for Discussion Describe the electron configuration of sodium.

In sodium chloride the ions are arranged alternately so, in the next row, chloride ions are located above the sodium ions. Next page Properties of ionic compounds ...

In a previous experiment, Oganov and his colleagues discovered several ‘forbidden’ compounds-Na3Cl, NaCl3, NaCl7, and even Na3Cl2 ...