Does sodim chloride react with water under any conditions ?
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Sodium Chloride DOES NOT chemically react with water under any conditions. To chemically react, it would have to undergo hydrolysis. Since it's a polar molecule (as opposed to covalent) it dissolves, as you correctly stated. This is not however a chemical reaction.
NaCl reacts with water no matter what the condition is because it is soluble in water and i think both are non-polar.( remember like dissolves like)
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any substance which is dropped in water undergoes hydrolysis .hydrolysis is also a chemical reaction.
sodium chloride is the salt of strong acid and a strong base.
it also undergoes hydrolysis. the product of hydrolysis is NaOH and HCl. both being strong base and strong acid they dissociate again to give Na+ and Cl- the counter ions are H+ and OH-. thus in the solution we could find Na+ and Cl-. here hydrolysis becomes ineffective.
for that matter consider sodium acetate. its the salt of weak acid (acetic acid) and strong base(NaOH). this can under go hydrolysis to give acetic acid. the solution can also be used as buffer.(acetic acid sodium acetate buffer is formed .it is an acidic buffer)
Water and salt are polar. I think you mean some sort of entertaining reaction like an explosion. Maybe if you freeze a chunk of salt then quickly place it in water, you might get a small reaction, depending on the amount used. Also try heating the water, then add the frozen salt chunk.
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