Salt ... Chloride Crossword Clue

- Element Na
- Element with symbol Na
- Salt, ... chloride
- Silvery-white element
- 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 readily oxidized 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 23. Specific gravity 0.97.

- Native salt; sodium chloride.

- A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride.

- Put in brine.
- Combined or impregnated with muriatic or hydrochloric acid.
- Prepared with chloride of silver through the agency of common salt.

- A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia.

- A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

- A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).