{"id":2842,"date":"2026-10-07T03:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2026-10-07T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:33:29","slug":"sodium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/sodium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Sodium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium is a soft, highly reactive metal that forms stable ionic compounds such as sodium chloride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Sodium<\/strong> | It reacts vigorously with water, has low ionization energy and forms strong ionic bonds in salts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Sodium<\/strong> | Abundant in seawater and minerals, sodium is used in chemical synthesis, metallurgy and as table salt for nutrition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Sodium<\/strong> | Stable Na 23 predominates; metallic sodium is pyrophoric in air and reacts violently with water, requiring inert storage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alkali metal essential biologically and used industrially in many compounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}