> What happens if you take out all the Na atoms? You can't _just_ take out the Na. You'd have to do some kind of reaction, and then it'd really just depend wha

> What happens if you take out all the Na atoms? You can't _just_ take out the Na. You'd have to do some kind of reaction, and then it'd really just depend what you put in instead. The closest thing I can think of to "take out all the Na atoms" would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloralkali_process https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloralkali_process , where yeah you get a lot of Chlorine and lye.