Comment on Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium

• n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a native English speaker, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone call NaCl just “Sodium”, it’s always called Sodium Chloride.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s interesting, it looks like I may have a bias on that due to my scientific background.

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• doctorspike@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a PhD candidate in chemistry. I’ve never once seen sodium refer to the salt, sodium chloride. Sodium is the metallic form or the atom.

  However, why sodium, tungsten, lead, antimony, tin, silver, gold, mercury, iron, and potassium and not their Latin forms? Natrium, wolfram, plumbum, stibium, stannum, argentum, aurum, hydrargyrum, Ferrum and kalium? I don’t really know. Mostly it’s just fun trivia for me to tell the undergrads.

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• marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always said salt, of sodium chloride for NaCl. Who is using sodium for table salt? The only time I heard that associated was when saying that table salt is a source of sodium, which is true.

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