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Consider the elements of chlorine and sodium. Chlorine is a poison, and a major component of some of the horrible gases used in the First World War. Sodium in hydro-antagonistic -- toss some in a lake and you get an explosion. If you’re a water-containing life form handling either element, you’re dealing with a pretty brutal item Studying their structures, melting points, atomic weights, and all the rest could give no hint of what you’d have if you combined these two elements. But bingo: Let an atom of one bond with an atom of the other, and you get sodium chloride -- common table salt. Now, no longer does an explosion rattle the neighborhood when this new compound meets water. Precisely the opposite happens. As part of salt it readily dissolves, leaving the water as transparent and unruffled as ever. ~ Page 163