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Sodium

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The job of water supply industries is to bring potable water to citizen. This task is very important because they also take the dirty water back. If they didn't do that our cities would be discusting and unpure. There is two types of water supply industry, private and public. Some countries decide to have public water supply that are managed and financed by the country and some countries decide to pay privately owned companies to water supply their country. About 90% of the world’s water supply comes from public water supply industry and 10% from privately owned water supply industry. There is also deals made with governments to create a mix of privately owned and publicly owned company which is called an public-private water supply industry. The element the most used in the water supply industry is the isotope sodium 24. .

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Sodium Atoms and Isotopes in Water Supply Industries

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Sodium Atoms and Isotopes in Water Supply Industries

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Before we talk about sodium's job in the water industry, we need to know the key properties of sodium. According to azom.com, sodium is highly reactive in water and looks like a silver-white metal that has a waxy appearance. Now that we know what sodium is and some of it's properties, what is the point of sodium? For instance, it is used for leak testing in industrial pipelines. Due to the limited penetrating power of the sodium radiation, detectors are only able to detect the radioactive sodium at leak points. Sodium 24 is also suited to this application due to its short half-life of just 15 hours.

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Sodium reacting with water.

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Sodium Chloride 35 is a stable non radioactive isotope that is used with repairing sewers. Since Sodium Chloride 35 is electrically charged, when their system detects damages, they go down and place some Sodium Chloride 35 and let it sit for a while. In about 30 minutes they go back in and track it. As you know, it is an isotope so whenever you are tracking, it will pintpoint the exact part of where it is leaking and repair it. Although Sodium Chloride 35 can detect a leak, according to Hamburg Township website sodium chloride it is quite concentrated so they are installing a system that removes sodium and chloride in the wastewater.

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