The Different Properties of Table Salts

Sodium and chlorine in their elemental form, highly toxic not very nice. Put them together they form a compound called sodium chloride which is ordinary table salt. You don't want to go consuming too much sodium, sodium metal anyway. Chlorine similarly is a pale yellow gas that's also highly toxic. Another example is water. As you should know it's comprised of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Now hydrogen is a very light flammable and transparent gas. Oxygen is also a gas it's transparent and you can't really taste it or see it in any way so obviously very different to either hydrogen or oxygen. Instead if you take one of those oxygen, two of those