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sodium chloride
sodium chloride
noun
- common table salt; a soluble colourless crystalline compound occurring naturally as halite and in sea water: widely used as a seasoning and preservative for food and in the manufacture of chemicals, glass, and soap. Formula: NaCl Also calledsalt
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This means that sodium chloride has a high melting and boiling point.
Before injection, the vaccine is mixed with water containing sodium chloride, or ordinary salt, just as many intravenously delivered drugs are.
Musk said Tesla is focusing on development of a process to extract the metal using sodium chloride, or table salt, instead of more expensive chemical reagents.
When some sodium chloride solution is then added to one of the two portions, the basicity of the solution is distinctly increased.
Sodium chloride (table salt), an important part of the blood, is taken in as a flavoring upon our meats and vegetables.
Weigh out 10 grammes sodium chloride and add to the contents of the flask.
Gay-Lussac's method is based on the precipitation of silver from a nitric acid solution by a solution of sodium chloride.
The weight of sodium chloride found, multiplied by 0.5302, gives the weight of the soda (Na2O).
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