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- Title
Metallic Sodium from Sodium Chloride--A Simple Experiment.
- Authors
Arnold, Herbert J.
- Abstract
The article presents information on an experiment of extracting metallic Sodium from Sodium Chloride by electrolysis. Metallic sodium is used in the production of compounds including tetraethyl lead, sodium peroxide and sodium cyanide. It is also used as a reducing agent in the preparation of some of the rarer metals. One more use of metallic Sodium is in certain organic syntheses. The first successful commercial process for the production of metallic Sodium is that of Castner, which was patented in 1891. For many years it was the single method for extraction of metallic Sodium. In Castner process metallic Sodium is extracted from Sodium Hydroxide. Sodium Hydroxide is an expensive. So a process was very much required to extract metallic Sodium from Sodium Chloride, common salt. Common salt is cheap and abundant compound. In this method metallic Sodium is extracted from fused sodium chloride is just as simple as the production of this metal from fused sodium hydroxide.
- Subjects
PHYSICAL &; theoretical chemistry; METALLURGY; SODIUM; CHEMICALS; ORGANIC synthesis; ELECTROLYSIS; SALT; SODIUM cyanide; TETRAETHYLLEAD; CHEMISTRY
- Publication
Science Education, 1940, Vol 24, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article