Question

Sodium metal is soft whereas sodium chloride is harder

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

sodium metal is an element and it is its physical property to be soft

whereas NaCl is a compound of Na which is Formed as a result of chemical reaction (change) and after a chemical reaction the properties of of constituent elements in compound are lost

Thus NaCl is not soft But hard

Another Example for this is water

it has Hydrogen which is highly combustible yet its compound water can extinguish fire

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