Periodic Table · element
Sodium
Na · Z 11
- atomic number
- 11
- atomic mass
- 22.99
- notation
- Na
- group
- 1: Lithium
- period
- 3
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 0.968
- melting pt
- 97.72
- boiling pt
- 883
- discovered
- 1807
- abundance
- 23600
- bio class
- Bulk
- bio role
- The dominant cation outside cells, and the other half of the gradient every nerve impulse spends.
- ore grade
- 390000
- ore minerals
- halite (rock salt); seawater and brines
- mined as
- Primary
extraction
Rock salt is mined underground with continuous miners; brine is pumped from solution wells and boiled down in vacuum pans; seawater is evaporated in solar ponds. Sodium metal is made by electrolysing molten sodium chloride in a Downs cell.
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