The Chemistry of Table Salt

The salt you put on your food is made from two incredibly dangerous elements. One is sodium,

a soft metal that explodes violently in water. The other is chlorine, a poisonous,

suffocating green gas. When they react, the sodium atom gives one of its

electrons to the chlorine atom. This transfer creates a powerful attraction called an ionic

bond, forming stable, harmless table salt. This transformation is the essence of

chemistry. It’s not magic; it's just atoms rearranging themselves to create completely

new substances with totally different properties. The world is just a giant cosmic dance

of atoms bonding together.