Show As an argument for advertising a number of our exchanges have been asking the question what if the minister quit boosting heaven in reply one of our subscribe ers writes as follows they would probably all go to hell bell and have a good time wyoming exchange the element sodium is very widely distributed in the 61 earth it forms about per cent of known terre terrestrial matter according to the united states geological survey 1 and is the most abundant of the alkali metals sodium appears to occur in nature only in combination with other elements if its alleged occurrence as the free eler element nentin jn blue rock salt is neglected it is an important constituent of the feldspars feld spars and several other insoluble minerals from which sodium salts are not extracted commercially but which are nevertheless regarded b as the ultimate source 0 oil the salts that are soluble in water |