Question

Common salt or table salt is part of our daily diet. However, it is also a basic raw material for many industries. Common salt can be converted into important and useful industrial chemicals mentioned except one. Identify that chemical.

• A. Sodium nitrate (used in the fertilizer industry)
• B. Sodium sulphate (used in making glass)
• C. Sodium peroxide (to make hydrogen peroxide)
• D. Sodium oxide (used in making paints)

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Sodium oxide (used in making paints)

• Its major industrial products are caustic soda and chlorine; salt is used in many industrial processes including the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride, plastics, paper pulp and many other products.
  
• It is also used in preparation of Sodium nitrate (used in the fertilizer industry), Sodium sulphate (used in making glass) and Sodium peroxide (to make hydrogen peroxide).