I'm just wondering...

Science has has gone a long way since back when. We have done things we thought where impossible. We keep proving that's nothing impossible

And many things we once thought possible have proved to be impossible!

Though in theory, if we can somehow combine atoms of two elements, Na and Cl, couldn't we have the product of salt? Though of course not natural... but if those two elements are its components, and if we had a method to actually combine atoms such as that, couldn't it then make salt?

When I say make, I mean combining two elements and then that together is then a substance where the properties are different to the two respected elements.

It also sounds like Brysing is saying that Salt(NaCl) is an element?

Well long ago. We are progressing not degression

Osiris, we have now gone off the original thread which was about Alchemy. But if you really think that nothing is impossible, then you are being silly! Try growing wings!

We can clone a bird so sure no problem. Let's get back to the subject.alchemy is amazing

Brysing, you can make sodium chloride in a laboratory. If you google 'Chemistry sodium chlorine' on the first page of results is a YouTube video of a man combining the elements sodium and chlorine to make table salt in a laboratory.

I'm not disagreeing that rock salt is mined, I'm not disagreeing that you can extract salt by evaporating sea water. But it is patently untrue to claim that you can't combine the elements sodium and chlorine to make sodium chloride.

Okay, I apologise. Salt can be made in a laboratory.Nevertheless, the salt on your table comes from the sea.

Let me say, that I feel rather humble now, about salt.But it shows that at 83 I am not too old to learn! I watched the experiment, and got other information, and now I know that salt can be made in a Science Lab; but certainly not on an industrial scale! The heat would be enormous!
So,let me explain to the young.
It is 70 years since I was in a school Science Lab.We would not have been allowed to conduct such a dangerous experiment.
It is difficult to explain to the young, what school days were like when I was young. There were no computers. No television. No smart phones. Very few radios. No microscopes at my school!
We were not even allowed to use a ball-point pen!
No space travel. No digital watches.No calculators.
Hard to imagine that now,isn't it?
The young these days are so very,very lucky!
The old can still teach some things to the young; but there is no doubt; the young can teach the old!