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Is sodium used as a salt substitute?

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PURE SODIUM will blow your face off. Na+H2O=explosion. Pure sodium is also very soft, and needs to be stabily kept in kerosene. A good substitute for NaCl(sodium chloride, also known as table salt) is NaK-Sodium potassium. The funniest thing about soduim and chlorine is one is a yellow gas that will choke you to death, while the other dropped in water will cause huge explosions. Also, DO NOT TRY TO MAKE YOUR OWN SALT. The reaction could burn you seriously, or an uncontrolled chlorine leak will kill you.

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The short answer is 'no' -- sodium is a component of salt.

What we commonly think of as 'table salt' -- the stuff on french fries that makes them taste, well, salty -- is sodium chloride, or NaCl. When sodium molecules meet chlorine molecules, they form edible salt.

The most common 'salt substitute' is potassium chloride, or KCl, which, you might notice, is just like table salt except that it's potassium and chlorine instead of sodium and chlorine.

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