in which country is sodium most likely to be found?
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Sodium nitrate (not to be confused with sodium nitrite) is a type of salt (NaNO3) which has long been used as an ingredient in explosives and in solid rocket propellants, as well as in glass and pottery enamel, and as a food preservative (such as in hot dogs), and has been mined extensively for those purposes. It is also variously known as caliche, Chile saltpeter, saltpeter, and soda niter.\n\nThe world's largest natural deposits of caliche ore were in the Atacama desert of Chile, and many deposits were mined for over a century, until the 1940s. The former Chilean saltpeter mining communities of Humberstone and Santa Laura were declared Unesco World Heritage sites in 2005.
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Probably the smallest country.  \nDue to diet, environmental, and hereditary conditions etc ,. each country may have different cancers that are more predominant.  Animals get cancer too and  receive the same types of treatment.  It appears to be everywhere.
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Of course you could bring it to a food lab and have them analyze it.  Other than that, I have no idea how you would find how much sodium is in it with chemicals available at home.  If you are worried about your sodium intake, just have half the bowl and share with someone else, or if it's really that good (which it probably is, all Thai food is), just eat it less often.
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Salt comes from  dissolved rock. Rivers carry that salt from the land to the ocean. It's that simple.
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If it's metallic, it could be sodium or potassium.
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Borax is Na2B4O7.So you find sodium,boron,oxygen in borax.
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I would guess somewhere in central america
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switzerland, i think. best answer:)
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Salt is widely distributed in nature. It is found in solution in ocean water in concentrations of about 30 g/litre (about 4.08 oz/gal) of water, meaning that salt makes up about 3 per cent of ocean water by weight. The compound is also distributed throughout many rivers and inland lakes and seas, the concentration varying from 0.002 per cent in the Mississippi River to 30 per cent in the Dead Sea. Salt can occur as a surface crust or layer in swamps and dry lake bottoms, especially in extremely arid regions. The mineral halite, more commonly known as rock salt or massive salt, occurs in beds deposited by the dehydration of ancient bodies of salt water. The compound is constantly being formed by the action of rivers and streams on rocks containing chlorides and compounds of sodium. Salt melts at 804° C (1479° F) and begins to vaporize at temperatures just slightly above this; it has a relative density of 2.17.
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Japan.\n\nNah..just kidding.  The US, we export it...lol.
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We probably need a little more information.  Which country and what area of the country?  This link may be of some help.
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Sodium is an ion that is very important in the human body.  It has a plus one charge and is represented as Na+.  It functions in many places in the body, here are some examples.  The change in sodium concentration in a neuron is what produces the electrical charge that pulses down the neuron.  Also another important function is that sugar is only absorbed in the small intestine by cotransport into intestinal epithelial cells with Na+.
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none .... South America!
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It depends on if you are looking at large quanities or just any ammount goes. It also depends on if you are looking at elements that are only found in compounds or not. Oxygen, hydrogen, argon, carbon, nitrogen, alluminium, silicon, iron, tugstan, lithium, potassum, titanium to name a few. almost all of the elements can be found near the earth's surface except those that are man made, usually the extremly heavy ones like plutonium.
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Sodium is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Na (Natrium in Latin) and atomic number 11. Sodium is a soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal belonging to the alkali metals that is abundant in natural compounds (especially halite). It is highly reactive, burns with a yellow flame, reacts violently with water and oxidizes in air, necessitating storage in an inert environment.\n\nLike the other alkali metals, sodium metal is a soft, light-weight, silvery white, reactive metal. Owing to its extreme reactivity, it occurs in nature only combined in compounds, never as a pure elemental metal. Sodium metal floats on water and reacts with it violently, releasing heat and flammable hydrogen gas, and forming a solution of the strong base sodium hydroxide.\n\nSodium ions are necessary for regulation of blood and body fluids, transmission of nerve impulses, heart activity, and certain metabolic functions. It is widely considered that most people in Western countries consume more than is needed, in the form of sodium chloride, or table salt, and that this can have a negative effect on health. See Edible salt.\n\nUnder extreme pressure, sodium departs from standard rules for changing to a liquid state. Most materials need more thermal energy to melt under pressure than they do at normal atmospheric pressure. This is because the molecules are packed closer together and have less room to move. At a pressure of 30 gigapascals (300,000 times sea level atmospheric pressure), the melting temperature of sodium begins to drop. At around 100 gigapascals, sodium will melt near room temperature.\n\nA possible explanation for the aberrant behavior of sodium is that this element has one free electron that is pushed closer to the other 10 electrons when placed under pressure, forcing interactions that are not normally present. While under pressure, solid sodium assumes several odd crystal structures suggesting that the liquid might have unusual properties such as superconduction or superfluidity. (Gregoryanz, et al., 2005)\n[edit]\n\nApplications\n\nSodium in its metallic form is an essential component in the making of esters and in the manufacture of organic compounds. This alkali metal is also a component of sodium chloride (NaCl) which is vital to life. Other uses:\n\n    * In certain alloys to improve their structure.\n    * In soap, in combination with fatty acids.\n    * To descale metal (make its surface smooth).\n    * To purify molten metals.\n    * In sodium vapor lamps, an efficient means of producing light from electricity.\n    * As a heat transfer fluid in some types of nuclear reactors and inside the hollow valves of high-performance internal combustion engines.\n\n[edit]\n\nHistory\n\nSodium (English, soda) has long been recognized in compounds, but was not isolated until 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy through the electrolysis of caustic soda. In medieval Europe a compound of sodium with the Latin name of sodanum was used as a headache remedy. Sodium's symbol, Na, comes from the neo-Latin name for a common sodium compound named natrium, which comes from the Greek nítron, a kind of natural salt. As early as 1860 Kirchhoff and Bunsen noted the sensitivity that a flame test for sodium could have. Stating in Annalen der Physik und der Chemie in the paper "Chemical Analysis by Observation of Spectra": "In a corner of our 60 cu.m. room farthest away from the apparatus, we exploded 3 mg. of sodium chlorate with milk sugar while observing the nonluminous flame before the slit. After a few minutes, the flame gradually turned yellow and showed a strong sodium line that disappeared only after 10 minutes. From the weight of the sodium salt and the volume of air in the room, we easily calculate that one part by weight of air could not contain more than 1/20 millionth weight of sodium."\n[edit]\n\nOccurrence and production\nThe flame test for sodium displays a brilliantly bright yellow emission due to the so cal
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Please specify, the country also.
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Well, besides water, there's dissolved salts, made up of chloride and sulfate salts of calcium, sodium, potassium, and magnesium.  There are also many trace elements, including gold.