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Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium (www.economist.com)
submitted 10 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Na-Ion can be a lot less expensive. But it's a lot heavier. (Not a problem for grid-storage.)

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[–] doctorspike@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I’m a PhD candidate in chemistry. I’ve never once seen sodium refer to the salt, sodium chloride. Sodium is the metallic form or the atom.

However, why sodium, tungsten, lead, antimony, tin, silver, gold, mercury, iron, and potassium and not their Latin forms? Natrium, wolfram, plumbum, stibium, stannum, argentum, aurum, hydrargyrum, Ferrum and kalium? I don’t really know. Mostly it’s just fun trivia for me to tell the undergrads.