High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sodium metal is produced commercially through the electrolysis of liquid sodium chloride This is now done in a Down's cell in which sodium chloride is mixed with calcium chloride to lower the melting point below 700 °C As calcium is more electropositive than sodium, no calcium will be formed at the cathode ожныш This method is less expensive than the previous method of electrolyzing sodium hydroxide Sodium chloride is used in other chemical processes for the large-scale production of compounds containing sodium or chlorine In the Solvay process, sodium chloride is used for producing sodium carbonate and calcium chloride In the Mannheim process and in the Hargreaves process, it is used for the production of sodium sulfate and hydrochloric acid.  221.6 кв.м.2010 г Мягкая обложка, 76 стр ISBN 6130499086.