In the food industry, it’s known as E621. It dissolves easily in water, separating into sodium and free glutamate. It’s made by fermenting carb sources like sugar beet, sugar cane, and molasses.

There’s no debating that metallic sodium is exciting stuff, but getting your hands on some can be problematic, what with the need to ship it in a mineral oil bath to keep it from exploding.

Most people are familiar with sodium chloride (commonly known as salt) as a kitchen ingredient, but it also has important medical uses. Sodium chloride (NaCl), also known as salt, is an essential ...

Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. A new factory shows how sodium ion will gain an increasing share of the U.S. energy storage market as developers seek to reduce ...

"Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a compelling alternative to lithium-ion batteries due to the greater abundance and lower cost of sodium," said Gui-Liang Xu, a chemist at the U.S. Department ...

Miss Fong: Yes. Let's imagine we are mixing a common acid like nitric acid and a common alkali - sodium hydroxide. When they react water and a salt called sodium nitrate is produced. Katie ...

A few drops of dilute sodium hydroxide solution react to form a white precipitate with aluminium ions, calcium ions and magnesium ions. However, if excess sodium hydroxide solution is added ...