Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. A new factory shows how sodium ion will gain an increasing share of the U.S. energy storage market as developers seek to reduce ...

It’s just plain old bicarbonate of soda that they are referring to. This is because bicarbonate of soda is the same thing as baking soda. Baking soda – and sometimes sodium bicarbonate – are terms ...

Sodium valproate can cause serious problems in a developing baby. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued regulations on the way it is prescribed to both men and ...

It forms when sodium (chemical symbol “Na”) and chloride (“Cl”) ions come together to create white, crystalline cubes. Your body needs salt to function, but too little or too much salt can ...

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have achieved an important advancement in making sodium-ion batteries more effective. They have developed a new way to ...

To form the final product, the team heated up a mixture of a precursor material and sodium hydroxide to as high as 600°C, maintained it at that temperature for a select period, then cooled it to ...

Daily sodium intake above 2,300 milligrams (mg) is a cardiovascular (heart) disease risk factor. While some sodium is needed for the body to function properly, too much can raise the risk of high ...

The chemical sodium cyanide is a white crystal-like solid with a faint almond odour It is used in industry for metal cleaning, plating and extraction When cyanide salts are swallowed they release ...