What is the difference between Sodium atoms and oxygen atoms
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What would be formed between sodium atom and oxygen atom?
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I am compelled to give an answer to this only because the existing answer seems so fundamentally wrong on many levels and offends my very basic knowledge of chemistry. I don’t know from practical experience that sodium and oxygen do react, although I do know that sodium is a group 1 highly reactive element, a bit like lithium and francium that does burn in air. Each element burns at a different rate with Francium being actually explosive because the reaction rate is so fast. To be honest I seem to remember a video of sodium that had been stored under oil and then drop on water, burning, i.e. oxidising. That would be sodium, because it is a highly reactive group 1 element reacting probably with both oxygen in air and potentially displacing oxygen from hydrogen in the water it was floating on, oxidising i.e. combining with oxygen which is a group 6 element to form presumably Na20 or sodium oxide. Na20 would be an ionically bonded molecule with 2 sodiums and one oxygen where each sodium loses an electron to form a sodium ion and the oxygen gains 2 electrons, one from each sodium atom to form and oxygen ion. This is basic and established but correct, chemistry. The statement in the previous answer about “only ions react” . Ions are the result of molecular interactions to exchange elements and form lower energy, or, more energetically stable molecules.
sodium use in many thinks and oxygen use in breath but oxygen is most important in our life