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Salt
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Salt is a certain type of sodium. Actually a one word for sodium would be closer to soda.
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The most common form of sodium is in salt, i.e., sodium chloride. But sodium and salt are not the same thing -- you have to mix sodium with chlorine to get salt. The chemical symbol for sodium is Na, because at one time it was called NATRIUM. Medical terminology still uses the natri- prefix to indicate sodium. For example, natriuresis is the process of excreting sodium ions in the urine.
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sodium It is not salt. Sodium and sodium chloride(salt) are two different things.
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