Tatefacts: Sodium

Yeah it's pretty cool that we call Na "Natrium" in Germany. But we also have "Sauerstoff" for O and "Wasserstoff" for H which kinda sucks.

Oh boi here comes the crystallographers with their nerdy cubic close packed structures. Imagine being the guy sad enough to work that the packing efficiency of the crystal structure of NaCl is ~ 70%

Ah finally, a makeup reference, something I can understand

Man this is my favourite channel I'm an undergraduate doing chemistry as well

Fun stuffs

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Sodium is a chemical element; it has symbol Na (from Neo-Latin natrium) and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal. Sodium is an alkali metal, being in group 1 of the periodic table. Its only stable isotope is 23Na. The free metal does not occur in nature and must be prepared from compounds. Sodium is the sixth most abundant element in the Earth's crust and exists in numerous minerals such as feldspars, sodalite, and halite (NaCl). Many salts of sodium are highly water-soluble: sodium ions have been leached by the action of water from the Earth's minerals over eons, and thus sodium and chlorine are the most common dissolved elements by weight in the oceans.
Sodium was first isolated by Humphry Davy in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Among many other useful sodium compounds, sodium hydroxide (lye) is used in soap manufacture, and sodium chloride (edible salt) is a de-icing agent and a nutrient for animals including humans.
Sodium is an essential element for all animals and some plants. Sodium ions are the major cation in the extracellular fluid (ECF) and as such are the major contributor to the ECF osmotic pressure and ECF compartment volume.[citation needed] Loss of water from the ECF compartment increases the sodium concentration, a condition called hypernatremia. Isotonic loss of water and sodium from the ECF compartment decreases the size of that compartment in a condition called ECF hypovolemia.
By means of the sodium-potassium pump, living human cells pump three sodium ions out of the cell in exchange for two potassium ions pumped in; comparing ion concentrations across the cell membrane, inside to outside, potassium measures about 40:1, and sodium, about 1:10. In nerve cells, the electrical charge across the cell membrane enables transmission of the nerve impulse-an action potential-when the charge is dissipated; sodium plays a key role in that activity.

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(Nice video by the way)

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In Israel we call sodium natran

Brillant!

Natrium Chloride ?!?!

Nah, I prefer mercury vapour lamps.

Sodium is also called known by natrium in slavic languages. For example, the word for sodium is натрий in russian, натрыю in belarussian, and натрію in ukrainian. Typical english, constantly having to deviate from the norm set by the rest of the world 🙄