Sodium (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for sodium. The reference product is sodium. Sodium is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 007440-23-5. It is called sodium under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: Na. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure and appears as a silvery grayish metal in various forms. It is soft and thus ductile. It dissolves in liquid ammonia to give a blue solution. It is modelled as a pure substance. Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: as an intermediate in the production of sodium borohydride, sodium azide, indigo, and triphenylphosphine. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5676/documentation.