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Sodium chloride is a famous binary phase. It features two elements: Na and Cl.

In materials chemistry, a binary phase is chemical compound containing two different elements. Some binary phases compounds are molecular, e.g. carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). More typically binary phase refers to extended solids. A famous example are the sodium chloride.[1]

References

  1. ^ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.