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Sodium vs. Salt — What's the Difference?

Sodium vs. Salt — What's the Difference?

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Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na (from Latin natrium) and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal.

Salt

Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater.

Sodium

The chemical element of atomic number 11, a soft silver-white reactive metal of the alkali metal group.

Salt

A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.

Sodium

A soft, light, extremely malleable silver-white element that is an alkali metal, reacts violently with water, is naturally abundant in combined forms, especially in common salt, and is used in the production of a wide variety of industrially important compounds. Sodium ions are essential to numerous biological processes in animals. Atomic number 11; atomic weight 22.9898; melting point 97.80°C; boiling point 883°C; specific gravity 0.971 (20°C); valence 1. See Periodic Table.
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Salt

An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.

Sodium

The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.990. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature.

Salt

Salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.

Sodium

Employing sodium.

Salt

Salts Smelling salts.

Sodium

A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so highly reactive that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 22.990. Specific gravity 0.97.

Salt

Often salts Epsom salts.

Sodium

A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)

Salt

An element that gives flavor or zest.

Salt

Sharp lively wit.

Salt

(Informal) A sailor, especially when old or experienced.

Salt

A saltcellar.

Salt

Containing or filled with salt
A salt spray.
Salt tears.

Salt

Having a salty taste or smell
Breathed the salt air.

Salt

Preserved in salt or a salt solution
Salt mackerel.

Salt

Flooded with seawater.

Salt

Found in or near such a flooded area
Salt grasses.

Salt

To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.

Salt

To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.

Salt

To provide salt for (deer or cattle).

Salt

To add zest or liveliness to
Salt a lecture with anecdotes.

Salt

To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.

Salt

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

Salt

(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

Salt

(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

Salt

(slang) A sailor also old salt.

Salt

(cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.

Salt

A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

Salt

(obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.

Salt

(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.
Attic salt

Salt

(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.

Salt

Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.

Salt

(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.
Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.

Salt

(Internet slang) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.

Salt

The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

Salt

One who joins a workplace for the purpose of unionizing it.

Salt

A bounding; a leaping; a prance.

Salt

Salty; salted.
Salt beef;
Salt tears

Salt

Saline.
A salt marsh;
Salt grass

Salt

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
A salt mine
The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.

Salt

Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Salt

Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.

Salt

Costly; expensive.

Salt

(transitive) To add salt to.
To salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter

Salt

(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
The brine begins to salt.

Salt

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.

Salt

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

Salt

(mining) To blast metal into as a portion of a mine in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

Salt

(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.

Salt

(transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear weapon) so that it generates more radiation.

Salt

(transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
They salted the document with arcane language.

Salt

(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

Salt

To render a thing useless.

Salt

To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.

Salt

(wiki) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.

Salt

The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.

Salt

Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us.

Salt

Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

Salt

A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.

Salt

A sailor; - usually qualified by old.
Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.

Salt

The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Salt

Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
Ye are the salt of the earth.

Salt

Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

Salt

Marshes flooded by the tide.
His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt.

Salt

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Salt

Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

Salt

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

Salt

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.

Salt

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;And yet salt water blinds them not so muchBut they can see a sort of traitors here.

Salt

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

Salt

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

Salt

To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

Salt

A compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

Salt

White crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

Salt

Negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

Salt

The taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth

Salt

Add salt to

Salt

Sprinkle as if with salt;
The rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps

Salt

Add zest or liveliness to;
She salts her lectures with jokes

Salt

Preserve with salt;
People used to salt meats on ships

Salt

Containing or filled with salt;
Salt water

Salt

Of speech that is painful or bitter;
Salt scorn
A salt apology

Salt

One of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

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