Solid phase
- Official name
- Sodium chloride
- Secondary names
- Common salt; Halite; Rock salt; Saline; Sodium chloric; Table salt; NaCl
- CAS number
- 7647-14-5
- Family
- ionic solid
- Class
- normal salt
- Compound type
- chloride
- Comments
- equivalent to mineral Halite
- Formula
- $Na^+ \cdot Cl^-$
- Chemical formula
- NaCl
- Elemental formula
- (Na+) (Cl-)
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Class
- normal salts (07)
- Type
- simple normal salts (07.01)
- Equivalent mineral
- Halite
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- isometric (cubic)
- Crystal class
- hexoctahedral
- Crystal class symbol
- m-3m (Oh)
- Crystal spacegroup
- Fm-3m
- Molar mass
- 58.443 $g/mol$
- Density
- 2.165 (calc.: 2.22) $g/cm^3$
- State NTP
- solid
- Phase transitions
-
Phase transition type Other phases Temperature - Pressure solid-liquid liquid NaCl 801°C (1074 K) @ 1 bar
- Refringence type
- isotropic
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 1.544 @ 589 nm
- Pure color
- colorless
- Color
- colorless, white
- Diaphaneity
- transparent to translucent
- Luster
- vitreous