He needed sodium chlorate so a hot plate was used to boil ... which is sourced from the grocery store as a sodium-free salt alternative. After mixing with the filtered remains of the bleach ...

Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

The insoluble reactant chosen depends upon the particular salt required ... On the other hand, sodium is too reactive to be used safely - again the metal is not used to make sodium salts.