(July 17, 2013 at 1:38 am)genkaus Wrote:(July 17, 2013 at 1:32 am)Consilius Wrote: If sodium is still sodium outside of and within the salt, then we have a whole made of parts. A chemical compound is the creation of an entirely different thing, not a body with parts.
As it happens, sodium is still sodium outside of and within salt. It doesn't magically change into unsodium.
No, but the salt changes.
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