THINGS AROUND US4. PEACE BE WITH THE ELEMENTS
“I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.”― Louis Pasteur
I hope every one have experienced salt in your life. Going little scientific the common salt that we use is called as NaCl or Sodium Chloride. There is a very interesting thing about it, stating from fights in home to major turn back in independence moment of an nation. We can learn many things form salt or for the matter from nature if we observe and question it.
SALT EXTRACTED FROM SEA
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What salt is made up of ?
Technically form our daily use of salt it can be said that salt is a white crystalline substance that gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning or preserving food. Scientifically salt is something different, Salt is a chemical compound consisting of an ionic assembly of cations and anions.Salts are composed of related numbers of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negatively charged ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge).
So in case of common salt in our home we have Sodium as cation and Chlorine as anion so they can be represented as (Na + and Cl-).
NATURALLY OCCURRING SODIUM METAL
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Why the names anion and cation?
Now we see both have the suffix "ion" in simple words we have ion is any free atom which is single and waiting to join with other atom in two different ways . First way,there are only two configuration of ions one with a lack of electrons and other with extra electrons. We should understand that an atom should have only certain number of electrons to attain the stable configuration so they join with the electrons of other ions to attain the stable configuration. First an ion can get electrons. Second an ion can give electrons. So it is a kind of mutual understanding with that electrons. So when the electrons join in the above mentioned way they are forming bonding so they are broadly call as the process of chemical bonding.
Bonding of sodium and chlorine ions
(IONIC BONDING)
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Why chlorine is against peace?
It is not much against the peace as compare to the next element in the discussion. Chlorine along with liquids as turpentine and ammonia it is very explosive. Even pure chlorine when inhaled is poisonous to our body, high concentration can cause death. The main reason is the when they react with our body they form acid and those acids cause damage to our internal and external organs. It is one of the chemical used in wars.
Why sodium is against peace?
If you just keep sodium near water after sometimes it will behave like a bomb. In small amounts it is good of health, small amounts in the scene ten in thousand ( so very little). For our bodies it will cause organ failure if taken in large quantities. So the word explosive is enough to show that sodium is against peace.
SMALL AMOUNT OF SODIUM EXPLODING IN WATER
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How does both sodium and chlorine combine to become peace lovers?
Simple as mentioned about the ions earlier, when sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl) are combined, the sodium atoms each lose an electron, forming cations (Na+), and the chlorine atoms each gain an electron to form anions (Cl−). These ions are then attracted to each other in a 1:1 ratio to form sodium chloride (NaCl). Simply the table salt is formed.
Now as both have their stable configuration so there is no need to react with other materials thus they are not dangerous now. Simply, sodium did not want the extra electron and chlorine want a electron so sodium by giving becomes happy and chlorine by taking becomes happy. As both are happy they do not cause any harm.
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