Remember your chemistry. Sodium is a metal that ignites on contact with water (actually it rips water apart and the heat ignites the hydrogen as I recall). Ch

Remember your chemistry. Sodium is a metal that ignites on contact with water (actually it rips water apart and the heat ignites the hydrogen as I recall). Chlorine is a gas that was a weapon of war in WW I which burns your lungs out. Together they make table salt. HCl is a strong acid, NaOH is a strong base. Mix them together and you get NaCl and H2O (salt water), possibly with a little heat (forget). Flouride is the same, F-, making an acid HF or a salt NaF.