Why is Table Salt not highly reactive or toxic
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Why is Table Salt not highly reactive or toxic

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which makes for a very stable, non-reactive and usually not very toxic compound.It takes fluorine to snatch the chlorine ion away from sodium, and nothing else will do it.......
Because compounds have properties that are VERY different from the elements that make them up. Sodium is extremely reactive; chlorine is toxic, but put them together and you get relatively harmless sodium chloride, or table salt.

There are other examples as well: hydrogen is highly flammable and oxygen supports combustion, but put them together and you get water, which is neither flammable nor supportive of combustion.

I hope that helps. Good luck!

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Lucas got most of it. Sodium is ~especially~ reactive, as is chlorine. When they react with each other they bond so tightly that very little will pull them apart, which makes for a very stable, non-reactive and usually not very toxic compound. It takes fluorine to snatch the chlorine ion away from sodium, and nothing else will do it.
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