Well I am not a chemist, but 11 is the atomic weight for Na, Sodium. Sodium is prolific in producing a variety of "salts", of which NaCl is one. Perhaps that is what they meant by 11 being the number of salt. Wade

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I just received an email from the local Burning Man contingent (really fun group, btw). They've decided to form a non-profit group called Element 11 and in their announcement they note that: "Element 11 refers to the number of salt on the periodic table." While I used to be married to a genius chemist neither the chemist nor the genius rubbed off on me so I may be wrong but I don't think salt is an element but rather a compound made up of the elements sodium and chloride. Any chemists out there that can confirm (or refute) that? Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I would try to explain it to you, but you would be better served looking here: ;) http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Na/key.html Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:

I just received an email from the local Burning Man contingent (really fun group, btw). They've decided to form a non-profit group called Element 11 and in their announcement they note that:

"Element 11 refers to the number of salt on the periodic table."

While I used to be married to a genius chemist neither the chemist nor the genius rubbed off on me so I may be wrong but I don't think salt is an element but rather a compound made up of the elements sodium and chloride.

Any chemists out there that can confirm (or refute) that?

Thanks,

Patrick

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I can confirm that salt is not an element. Element 11 is sodium, one of the elements in table salt, sodium chloride, NaCl. Patrick Wiggins wrote:

I just received an email from the local Burning Man contingent (really fun group, btw). They've decided to form a non-profit group called Element 11 and in their announcement they note that:

"Element 11 refers to the number of salt on the periodic table."

While I used to be married to a genius chemist neither the chemist nor the genius rubbed off on me so I may be wrong but I don't think salt is an element but rather a compound made up of the elements sodium and chloride.

Any chemists out there that can confirm (or refute) that?

Thanks,

Patrick

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