Few chemicals are as familiar as table salt. The white crystals are the most common food seasoning in the world and an essential part of the human diet. Sodium chloride is chemically very stable - but ...

If the temperature is increased, the particles have more energy and so move quicker. Increasing the temperature increases the rate of reaction because the particles collide more often and with more ...

Sodium, ubiquitous on Earth in living organisms, oceans and minerals — all the way to table salt — may seem like one of the more ordinary elements. Margit S. Müller highlights why we, like the ...