2007-04-21 16:22:30 · 13 answers · asked by Vicki j 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Not exactly.
Salt - Table salt - is Sodium Chloride. And when you read the nutrition labels on foods, when they say "Sodium" they are using a term that is more-or-less comparable to "Salt" - even though chemically Sodium is something different.
This is because Sodium Chloride is water soluble and cannot be tested for directly, however, Sodium can. So, since Sodium is poisonous, and any foods that contained PURE sodium would be inedible, the nutritional information takes a measurement of Sodium in the food AFTER it has been extracted from any other chemicals it may have bonded with (Mono-Sodium Glutamate, or Sodium Chloride, or Sodium Nitride) and that is the value you see on the nutritional label.
2007-04-21 16:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by MrDave2176 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Salt is a salt of sodium. The Chlorine salt, actually, which is half of salt. The other half is the sodium. Two highly corrosive elements joined to make a food additive. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
2007-04-21 16:28:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Table salt contains sodium and chlorine with equal proportions. Actually, salt, per se, is not limited to sodium chloride (table salt). Most salt contains inorganic elements. They are highly crystallized structure, meaning their arrangement is ordered.
2007-04-21 16:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. Buckyball 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, salt is sodium aka: sodium chloride
2007-04-21 16:27:24 · answer #4 · answered by Mom of two boys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt is a molecule, made up of sodium and chlorine. Sodium can't live in it's pure form in nature, because of the instabilities of its outer electrons. One curious side effect of sodium, and several other elements such as calcium, in its pure form it will catch fire and literally explode when exposed to moisture. This is produced by the rapid combining and release of electrons from the sodium atoms and hydrogen atoms in the water. They produce enormous heat, and the oxygen from the breaking apart of the water completes the triangle and so the hydrogen burns in a violent flash.
2007-04-21 16:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by junkyarddawg_00 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is sodium chloride. NaCl. So, yes, it does have sodium in it, but also chlorine.
2007-04-21 16:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by submental25 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.Salt is also known as sodium chloride or NaCl
2007-04-22 04:12:44 · answer #7 · answered by Vivek O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
salt is any ionic compound.
table salt is sodium chloride
2007-04-21 16:32:00 · answer #8 · answered by benz4817 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-04-21 16:27:30 · answer #9 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is.
2007-04-21 16:29:04 · answer #10 · answered by lkn4trth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋