Chemicals from salt

Splitting up salts

electroysis is used to split up salt and to make other things

a formula for this is

sodium chloride + water eletrolysis sodium hydroxide + chlorine + hydrogen

this shows that spliting up salt is profit able and that is why is used in industry.

Sodium hydroxde has been in the chemical industry and a part of life for thousands of years but was mainly used for soap and later came in to use to make steel and glass.
 

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