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    I have a container which originally held 500 grams of what the label claims to be "finest table salt" - pretty much pure sodium chloride. Yet, out of every 100 grams in the container, only 39 grams are sodium. Since a molecule of table salt is made up of an equal number of sodium and chlorine atoms, this leads me to believe that chlorine is a much heavier element than sodium. Is that really true?

    Question #63027. Asked by Arpeggionist. (Mar 01 06 3:01 PM)


    mementoflash

    		Chloride has an atomic weight of about 35.50 while Sodium's atomic weight is about 22.99.

    http://www.saltinstitute.org/15.html

    Mar 01 06, 3:20 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		Yeah. That about explains it. Thanks.

    Mar 01 06, 3:30 PM

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