Table salt is dissolved in water?

NaCl + H2O —–> Na(+) + Cl(-) + H2O

That's the reaction equation, but overall you can say that water "splits" table salt and that it dissolves in water, but why does water do that or can it do that?

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Shadow1430
2 years ago

Hey, that’s a very good question!

It is not possible to say that water cleaves sodium chloride, but it dissolves the salt, i.e. it dissolves the binding of the salt ions. Salts have an ionic bond, which means that a part (sodium) is positively charged and the other (chloride) is negatively charged. These charges attract strongly and neutralize each other, which is why salts are so stable.

Water is now a very polar molecule. The oxygen atom removes electrons from the H atoms and is thus negatively polarized, while the H atoms are positively polarized. The water molecules are now also attracted by the charges of the salt and arrange around the salt ions; the electronegative O is attracted by the Na+ and the electropositive H by the Cl-. Thus, the water atoms formally push between the binding of Na and Cl and neutralize their charges a bit far. Their attraction therefore decreases more and more until the binding completely breaks down and the salt ions individually relocated by water molecules float in the solution. They are now released and the energy released is called “hydration energy”.

milkandcookiez
2 years ago
Reply to  Shadow1430

Ah! I miss chemistry at school:(My Abi was not long ago, but chemistry was always my favorite subject:(

Shadow1430
2 years ago
Reply to  milkandcookiez

You can go to study chemistry, I did it for the reason and it is worth it;)

Shadow1430
2 years ago

Ahh okay then becomes difficult, but that also sounds very exciting! 🙂

milkandcookiez
2 years ago

I already study product design 😀

DieMelanie222
2 years ago

No water does not cleave the saline but does it leak. It is furthermore sodium chloride to split it you would have to direct current (Gleischstrom) through the salt solution then the NaCl splits into its two elements.

Water NaCl can dissolve because water is nonpolar and NaCl polar.

Shadow1430
2 years ago
Reply to  1LeonieS1

Yes, that’s true, but the ions are still loaded, so Na+ and OH. It is exactly the same principle as I have formulated in my answer 🙂

Ammonium chloride is not “NaOH”, that would be sodium hydroxide. Ammonium chloride is “NH4Cl” and is split into NH4+ and Cl.

Shadow1430
2 years ago
Reply to  DieMelanie222

Water is not at all nonpolar, on the contrary, water is the most polar solvent at all and therefore it can dissolve salts at all.

DieMelanie222
2 years ago
Reply to  Shadow1430

Yes, of course. I clearly have a cup of coffee too little. I’ll go to the corner to be ashamed.

Shadow1430
2 years ago

But it will be dissolved. However, OH is a charged molecule and not a charged atom. Water cannot split up molecular bonds, because those are covalent. Water can only cleave ionic bonds. That’s why OH remains together. However, the salt NaOH was dissolved, the ionic bond between Na+ and OH no longer exists. :

Shadow1430
2 years ago

You know, enjoy your coffee ^