Please post 2 or more peer responses

In the response posts, remember to demonstrate you have read and understood the student’s post by taking their discussion to the next level through your responses to the following:

· Identify the posters’ additional ionic compounds and then name them according to IUPAC rules.

· Discuss the physical properties of this compound, such as boiling point, melting point, reactivity, conductivity, etc.

· Provide the common name for each molecule, if possible.

· Choose a metal on the periodic table and replace that metal with the metal in one of your compounds from above.  How does the new ionic compound differ from the original compound?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Response posts are worth 
50% of your grade for this discussion. 

Please review the initial post/response instructions 

and 
the rubric for this discussion to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Unit 2 Discussion Initial Post

The compound that I am choosing to write about that I can find at home, is sodium chloride.

The compound that I see at work on a regular basis and is found in the medical field, is sodium bicarbonate.

Sodium chloride, also known as NaCl, is formed by the positively charged Na+, who is more likely to lose an electron from its valence shell, donating one electron to Chloride. This causes chloride to have a negative charge, and thus become the anion, and this causes sodium to become the cation, and also have a positive charge (Byjus, accessed 2024).. The uses for sodium chloride in the home are many, but include table salt, electrolytes in drinks such as powerade, gatorade, and propel, and it is also used in the medical field in the form of normal saline, also known as 0.9 sodium chloride. It’s use in the medical field is similar to that of gatorade and other sports drinks, in the way that is someone is dehydrated, low on sodium (salt), or needs fluid resuscitation, sodium chloride given through an intravenous line is helpful.

Sodium bicarbonate, NAHCO3, is also known by its IUPAC name, sodium hydrogen carbonate. It is formed by the positive Na+ and the negatively charged oxygen, bonding to the carbon, allows sodium to become the cation and HCO3 to become the anion by becoming more negatively charged. Sodium bicarbonate has many uses in the medical field, and it can, and regularly does, make the difference between life and death for some people. Sodium bicarbonate is used in cases of overdoses, particularly aspirin overdoses as well as TCA, tricyclic antidepressant over doses, as well as in cardiac arrest, especially when the downtime is unknown for the patient. In aspirin overdoses, sodium bicarbonate is very useful, as it can cause alkalosis, which in a different situation would not be ideal. However in an aspirin overdose, the aspirin requires an acidic environment in order for absorption to occur successfully, therefore sodium bicarbonate can assist greatly in reducing the effects of this type of overdose (Wikimedia, 2024). In the case of cardiac arrest, it helps revert the affects of hyperkalemia, by causing potassium to go back into the cells when introduced into the system. Hyperkalemia itself can be deadly, and is sometimes the cause alone for cardiac arrest.

The additional compound I have chosen to list in it’s molecular format only is as follows: 

H2O2

                                                                                                     References

Explain the formation of sodium chloride. byju. (n.d.). https://byjus.com/question-answer/explain-the-formation-of-sodium-chloride/

Wikimedia Foundation. (2024, January 7). 
Sodium bicarbonate. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate#:~:text=Sodium%20bicarbonate%20(IUPAC%20name%3A%20sodium,anion%20(HCO3%E2%88%92).

Ionic Compounds in Everyday Life.

· Look around your house for an ionic compound. 

· Ionic Compound: 

Table salt

· Look around your work (or the internet) for an ionic compound in the medical field.

· Ionic Compound: 

Carbamide peroxide

· Discuss each ionic compound, including the name and formula, and how it is used at home and in the medical field.

·

Table salt: 
Sodium chloride also known as 
NaCl. It used to 
season food, adding flavoring. In addition, it 
preserves food. It has also been used in the agricultural and chemical industries as well as in water conditioning and transportation.

·

Carbamide peroxide: 
Carbamide peroxide also known as 
hydrogen peroxide-urea. The formula is 
CH6N2O3. In dentistry it is used as a 
bleaching agent and in other areas of the medical field it is used to to 
soften and help remove ear wax.
 For home use it is usually in a 10–20% solution dispensed as a gel.

· Make sure to discuss how the cation and anion were formed.

· The cation in 
NaCl was formed by sodium losing the one electron on the most outer shell, making the overall charge positive. It has 11 electrons, making it easy to have 2 full electron shells. The chloride anion was formed by the last electron shell easily being filled by the one lose electron, gaining a negative charge. The one extra charge made it possible to have three full electron shells.

· The cation in 
CH6N2O3

· Finally, list one additional ionic compound. Don’t name the compound, just list its molecular formula.

·
CaCO

Citations:

Carbamide peroxide. Uses, Interactions, Mechanism of Action | DrugBank Online. (n.d.). https://go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11129

Elsevier, Inc. (n.d.). 
Carbamide peroxide ear solution. Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/18819-carbamide-peroxide-ear-solution

Libretexts. (2022, September 19). 
3.5: Ionic compounds- formulas and names. Chemistry LibreTexts. https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry/Map%3A_A_Molecular_Approach_(Tro)/03%3A_Molecules_Compounds_and_Chemical_Equations/3.05%3A_Ionic_Compounds-_Formulas_and_Names

Periodic table. Ptable. (n.d.). https://ptable.com/?lang=en#Properties

U.S. National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). 
Sodium chloride. National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Database. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Sodium-Chloride