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Question
Rock salt is an ore of one of the following metals. This metal is:
(a) Mn
(b) Na
(c) Fe
(d) Cu
Solution
(b) Na
Rock salt is a chloride ore of sodium. The name of the compound in the ore is sodium chloride with chemical formula NaCl.
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