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5 unusual facts about Sodium


Calcium concentration microdomains

A Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) is also involved in regulating the amount of calcium in cells.

Manu Parrotlet

Sodium is one that is sought after by many species, and is in abundance on mineral licks.

Sodium-chloride symporter

However, PHA2 is not caused by mutations within the NCC gene, but by mutations in NCC regulators WNK1 and WNK4.

Sodium-vapor lamp

Notable example of films using this technique include Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Mary Poppins, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Sodium:dicarboxylate symporter

this removal is also believed to prevent them accumulating to the point of reaching neurotoxic.


Active transport

In August 1960, in Prague, Robert K. Crane presented for the first time his discovery of the sodium-glucose cotransport as the mechanism for intestinal glucose absorption.

Barbital

Barbital (as known in the United States) or barbitone (as known elsewhere), marketed under the brand names Veronal for the pure acid and Medinal for the sodium salt, was the first commercially available barbiturate.

Bayer process

A few years earlier, Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville in France developed a method for making alumina by heating bauxite in sodium carbonate, Na2CO3, at 1200°C, leaching the sodium aluminate formed with water, then precipitating aluminium hydroxide by carbon dioxide, CO2, which was then filtered and dried.

Caustic embrittlement

Sodium carbonate is used in softening of water by lime soda process, due to this some sodium carbonate maybe left behind in the water.

Century egg

Instead of using just clay, a mixture of wood ash, quicklime, and salt is included in the plastering mixture, thereby increasing its pH and sodium content.

Cleavable detergent

ProteaseMAX is the brandname of Promega for sodium 3-((1-(furan-2-yl)undecyloxy)carbonylamino)propane-1-sulfonate.

Desitin Arzneimittel GmbH

Desitin Arzneimittel GmbH is the German producer of products, mostly CNS drugs (one of the leading German antiepileptic generics mark) such as Orfiril (sodium valproate film-coated tablets, gastroresistent tablets, sustained release tablets and extended-release granulate), Luminal (phenobarbital tablets and sodium phenobarbital injections), Lamotrigin (lamotrigine) and Timonil (carbamazepine).

Fena

Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), a medical parameter representing the fraction of sodium in urine relative to the fraction of sodium in circulation

Fire extinguisher

In 1928, DuGas (later bought by ANSUL) came out with a cartridge-operated dry chemical extinguisher, which used sodium bicarbonate specially treated with chemicals to render it free-flowing and moisture-resistant.

Garden City Skyway

The construction work included an Ontario "tall-wall" concrete median barrier, new bridge parapets, and the installation of shaded high-pressure sodium lights using the existing truss poles.

History of knot theory

For example, Thomson thought that sodium could be the Hopf link due to its two lines of spectra.

History of street lighting in the United States

When the sodium era began around 1970, the company (by then, renamed McGraw-Edison) produced the boxy, rectilinear, more simplified Unidoor 400 (for metropolitan expressways and city boulevards) and Unidoor 175 (for smaller residential streets and alleys).

Ibandronic acid

Ibandronic acid (INN) or ibandronate sodium (USAN), marketed under the trade names Boniva® in the USA, Bondronat® in Europe, Bonviva® in Asia, and ADRONiL by Searle in Pakistan.

Iron chelate

Iron chelate, also known as chelated iron, is a soluble complex of iron, sodium and a chelating agent such as ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA), EDDHA, or others, used to make the iron soluble in water and, for the purposes of agriculture, accessible to plants.

Jadarite

Jadarite's chemical formula is very close to the formula ("sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine") invented for the fictional substance kryptonite in the 2006 film Superman Returns.

KCPS

Five of the six vehicles were nearly instantly destroyed, however, the sixth vehicle a Nissan Hardbody Truck ran for over thirty minutes until finally succumbing to the sodium silicate.

Loop of Henle

:Sodium (Na+), potassium (K+) and chloride (Cl-) ions are reabsorbed from the urine by secondary active transport by a Na-K-Cl cotransporter (NKCC2).

Metal gate

Earlier PMOS technologies were not sensitive to this effect because the positively-charged sodium was naturally attracted towards the negatively-charged gate, and away from the channel, minimizing threshold voltage shifts.

Metal nitrosyl complex

One of the earliest examples of a nitrosyl complex to be synthesized is Roussin's red salt, which is a sodium salt of the anion Fe2(NO)4S22−.

Mina, Nevada

Thenardite, a sodium sulfate mineral, Na2SO4, found at Sodaville

Nascent hydrogen

Reductions of esters to give alcohols using a mixture of sodium and alcohols is called the Bouveault–Blanc reduction.

Neutra

Neutra Phos, a powder formulation of sodium and potassium phosphate

Organouranium chemistry

After the discovery of ferrocene in 1951, Todd Reynolds and Geoffrey Wilkinson in 1956 synthesized the uranium metallocene Cp3UCl from sodium cyclopentadienide and uranium tetrachloride as a stable but extremely air-sensitive compound.

Ped

Columnar structure is common in the subsoil of sodium affected soils and soils rich in swelling clays such as the semectites and the kandite Halloysite.

Pre-locus coeruleus

Subsequently, it was discovered that every c-Fos-positive neuron in the pre-LC (after sodium deprivation) also expresses the transcription factor FOXP2.

Quinidine

Quinidine also blocks the slowly inactivating, tetrodotoxin-sensitive Na current, the slow inward calcium current (ICa), the rapid (IKr) and slow (IKs) components of the delayed potassium rectifier current, the inward potassium rectifier current (IKI), the ATP-sensitive potassium channel (IKATP) and Ito.

Reverse osmosis

An example of this process is Dasani, which adds sodium chloride (salt) and potassium chloride to its water for "taste", according to the company.

Sesqui

Sodium sesquicarbonate, a double salt of sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate

Sodium bicarbonate

Sodium bicarbonate, as 'bicarbonate of soda', was a frequent source of punch lines for Groucho Marx in Marx brothers movies.

Sodium ethyl xanthate

Sodium ethyl xanthate can also be quantified using gravimetry, by weighing the lead xanthate residue obtained after reacting SEX with 10% solution of lead nitrate.

Sodium hypochlorite

According to work published by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in November 2013, a very dilute (0.005%) solution of sodium hypochlorite in water was successful in treating skin damage with an inflammatory component caused by radiation therapy, excess sun exposure or ageing in laboratory mice.

Sodium hypophosphite

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration designated sodium hypophosphite as a List I chemical under 21 CFR 1310.02 effective November 17, 2001, specifically mentioning the compound together with several other salts of hypophosphorous acid.

Sodium phosphide

French researcher, Alexandre Baudrimont prepared sodium phosphide by reacting molten sodium with phosphorus pentachloride.

Sodium thiosulfate

In this application to photographic processing, discovered by John Herschel and used for both film and photographic paper processing, the sodium thiosulfate is known as a photographic fixer, and is often referred to as hypo, from the original chemical name, hyposulphite of soda.

Sodium valproate

Sodium valproate is a weak blocker of sodium ion channels; it is also a weak inhibitor of enzymes that deactivate GABA such as GABA transaminase.

Sodium vanadate

Sodium orthovanadate (sodium tetraoxovanadate(V)), Na3VO4

Solvated electron

James Ballantyne Hannay and J. Hogarth repeated the experiments with sodium in 1879–1880.

St. Clair, Michigan

This is the only plant in the United States that produces Alberger salt, which is especially prized in the fast food industry because of its higher volume (due to its unique shape) and lower sodium content (for a given volume, not weight).

Tata Swach

However, the purification system did not have bacteriostatic or bactericidal properties and it was incapable of removing impurities such as lithium, alcohols, ammonia, strong acids and bases or inorganic substances like sodium, lead, iron, arsenic and nitrates.

Tourmaline

The name dravite was used for the first time by Gustav Tschermak (1836–1927), Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography at the University of Vienna, in his book Lehrbuch der Mineralogie (published in 1884) for magnesium-rich (and sodium-rich) tourmaline from the village Unterdrauburg, Drava river area, Carinthia, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Uranyl zinc acetate

Uranyl zinc acetate is used as a laboratory reagent in the determination of sodium concentrations of solutions using a method of quantitatively precipitating sodium with uranyl zinc acetate and gravimetrically determining the sodium as uranyl zinc sodium acetate, (UO2)2ZnNa(CH3CO2)·9H2O.

William Happer

Happer, G. J. MacDonald, C. E. Max, and F. J. Dyson, "Atmospheric-turbulence compensation by resonant optical backscattering from the sodium layer in the upper atmosphere," J. Opt.

Xanthate

Cellulose reacts with carbon disulfide (CS2) in presence of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to produces sodium cellulose xanthate, which upon neutralization with sulfuric acid (H2SO4) gives viscose rayon or cellophane paper (Sellotape or Scotch Tape).


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