when you are smelling something tiny particles of the substance have become gaseous and have entered your nose to be detected. In order for this to happen the intermolecular forces holding the molecules of that substance together must be weak.
This makes the substance volatile. Molecular compounds fit this since they have very weak forces of attraction between their molecules. Ionic compounds on the other hand have comparatively very strong intermolecular forces that hold them together thus not allowing them to escape in gaseous form to be smelled.
Table salt doesn't have an odor.
Sodium chloride has two atoms in the formula unit (NaCl): sodium and chlorine.
Sodium chloride is a compound.
Sodium chloride is not a cause of cancer.
Sodium chloride is formed from sodium and chlorine.
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Solid sodium chloride is not an electrolyte.Sodium chloride in water solutions or molten sodium chloride are electrolytes.
Sodium and chlorine are the only elements in sodium chloride.
Sodium chloride (NaCl) contain chlorine and sodium.
Sodium Chloride, common table salt, will not burn.
Sodium chloride is a compound.
Sodium chloride is neutral.
Crystals of pure sodium chloride are colorless.