No. the new substance cannot be sodium chloride.
Sodium chloride is a crystalline white solid. Even though it is odorless, it has a 'salty' taste. It is popularly known as common salt.
Sodium chloride has a density of 2.16 g/cm3 and conducts electricity in aqueous or molten form.
Sodium metal in itself melts at a temperature of about 97.79 °C.
In the illustration, the silvery metal melts at 63.5 °C. This means that the metal is not sodium.
Also, the density of the substance formed is 1.98 g/cm3 which is different from the 2.16 g/cm3 of sodium chloride.
Thus, the substance formed cannot be sodium chloride even though it has the same white crystalline solid form of sodium chloride.
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