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so desperate to lose an electron it explodes on contact with water.
means A soft, highly reactive silvery metal (element 11, symbol Na) that's essential to life as part of common salt and never found free in nature because it bonds with almost anything it touches.
from The English word comes from 'soda,' the old name for sodium-bearing compounds like washing soda, which traces back through medieval Latin and possibly Arabic 'suwwad,' a name for the saltwort plants whose ashes yielded it. Humphry Davy coined 'sodium' in the early 19th century after he first isolated the metal by electrolysis in 1807. The odd symbol 'Na' is a leftover from its Latin name 'natrium,' itself rooted in 'natron,' a naturally occurring salt the ancient Egyptians used to dry out mummies.
- violent loner
- Pure sodium ignites and dances on water
- stored wet
- Kept under oil to keep it calm
- never alone
- Too reactive to exist freely in nature
- flame test
- Burns a bright, unmistakable yellow
- in your blood
- Your nerves fire by pumping it around
dead sea — water body with 34% salt concentration, highest salinity of any major body of water on earth
great salt lake — utah lake with sodium chloride deposits mined commercially since the 1800s
atacama salt flat — chilean desert containing vast sodium nitrate reserves, major source of fertilizer in early 1900s