Industrial Uses
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- Sodium Vapour is used in lamps for street lighting.
- Sodium nitrate is used in the manufacture of fertilizers and smoke bombs.
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- "Common salt" (sodium chloride, NaCl), "soda ash" (sodium carbonate, Na2CO3), "baking soda" (sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO3, "bicarb"), and "caustic soda" (sodium hydroxide, NaOH) are important to the paper, glass, soap, textile, petroleum, chemical, and metal industries.