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How the sodium metal is extracted from its salt NACL to extract the sodium from its ore on which solvent does AIDS salt will be dissolved because if it gets extracted in water and when it will be extracted then the sodium metal reacts vigorously with that water and we cannot get that sodium metal is the salt of sodium soluble in kerosene oil?

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To extract Sodium metal from NaCl, you must use electrolysis.
Electrolysis involves passing electric current through a molten chemical or a chemical in a liquid state.
Current travels from the anode to the cathode, separating Sodium from Chlorine.
Use Sodium electrodes, as sodium will collect spontaneously on the cathode while Cl gas will be let out at the anode.
You will have sodium!

Another good way to do so is:
Add Potassium to it, and displace Na from NaCl.
You'll get sodium, but sodium will autmatically react with water, so you have to be very quick.
I'd still suggest that you use electrolysis.

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