There are 117 elements in the period table of elements and Sodium is one of them. Sodium is an element with an atomic number 11. Without any sodium, Salt would not have been on the face of this planet, which is part of sodium chloride.
Sodium has many uses and is widely used in order to refine reactive metal. For instance when sodium is in metallic form, it can be used separate potassium from its compound. Being a member of alkaline family, it is also used due to change the structure of some other alkali metals. Another Interesting usage of Sodium is in Soaps where combined with fatty acids, it can become harder making it a preferable choice over the potassium ones which are less hard.
A more known usage of Sodium is in Street lights. The orange-yellowish lights which can be seen on most highways are made of twin sodium D lines. An advantage of sodium lights over the fluorescent one is the fact that the high pressure sodium increases the spectrum of wavelength, therefore making it suitable in situations of Haziness and fog. A lot more scientific uses of sodium are present and scientist often use over potassium for drying solvents.
All in all, sodium is an important element, without which we may never have had the taste in our foods that we have now!
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