A poisonous green gas and a volatile metal that explodes in water...hardly sound like things we would want.But combining sodium (the metal) with chlorine (the gas) produces NaCl, sodium chloride, the most important salt in the world, without which life would not exist.
The movement of these ions, dissolved in water (itself made of two gases), through body fluids provides for intravascular and extravascular volume integrity, keeping us intact, upright, thinking, and living. Nice work!
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