Today’s Special
Smoked Sodium
With 11 crispy protons, every 22.990u slice of pure sodium is ready to melt in your mouth at 97.794°C. Perfect with a side of chips in dishes such as smoked fish, meats, and poultry, pizza, salted nuts, and baking soda or de-icing roads in winter.
Ingredients
- Element: Sodium
- What: A soft metal that tarnishes within seconds of being exposed to the air. Reacts vigorously with water.
- Chemical Symbol: Na
- Atomic Number: 11
- Atomic Mass: 22.99
- Category: Alkali Metal
Specials
- Sodium is the sixth most common element on Earth.
- Your body contains about 100 grams of sodium but is constantly losing it and needs to replace it.
- You probably eat about 10 grams of salt every day but we only need about 6 grams (about 2.3 grams of sodium).