The molecule NaCl, otherwise known as table salt, was

discovered many years ago. There was no actual records of

when it was discovered, but history takes it as far back in the
year 2,700 B.C. The people who were found using it were the
Chinese, where they used it for pharmaceutical reasoning. The
Chinese did two different things with the NaCl, they had two
methods of extracting NaCl and making use out of it which are
the same as we use today. This is the reason why we give the
credit of finding table salt to the Chinese
(www.saltinstitute.org).Table salt was very important in the
economic way. We have the expression now "not worth his
salt" from the Chinese and the Greek from when they used to
trade salt for slaves. After the news of Sodium Chloride had
spread, people were using it to keep their meat preserved and
fresh, and they were using it to cure cuts, because in those
days refrigerators weren't around yet. Eventually throughout the
years, table salt became a use for many other things. It helped
serve military purposes throughout Germany and Russia. When
the people fighting in the war became wounded, they threw salt
on their cuts, which helped heal them faster.
(www.saltinstitute.org) Throughout the medieval time period,
salt was eventually produced instead of only being found
naturally. People were now producing table salt from salt
springs, and making table salt by boiling brine. This was how
they were able to use table salt during the war of 1812. A few
years after this, taking the salt brine and putting it in an
evaporating dish being drenched in sun were now producing
solar salt. This make the brine break into small salt crystals,
which was now all dried out. Table salt is used daily in many
things such as foods, healing of things, preserving foods, etc
(Seaborg, page 79).The formula for the compound is NaCl,
which has the name table salt, or Sodium Chloride.
(www.britannica.com).Sodium Chloride was discovered a very
long time ago. It dates back to being discovered in the year
2,700 B.C., where people of China had discovered more than
forty different types of salt, and were using it for many different
things. Over the years, NaCl as well as the other types of salts
were being classified into many different areas. Such would be
classified as normal, acid, or basic, salts. These are then
classified as simple salts, double salts, or complex salts.
Simple salts would be something like sodium chloride, which
would have one kind of positive ion. Double salts contain two
different positive ions, which would be something like calcium
magnesium carbonate. (CaMg(CO3)2). Complex 2salts, would
be something like potassium ferricyanide, K3Fe(CN)6, which
would contain a complex ion that does not dissolve into a
solution. The Chinese also found out in their time sodium was
present in the compound, with more research they found that
Chlorine was also present. (www.britannica.com).The
compound NaCl has many characteristics to it. These
characteristics...