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Name one metal and one non-metal which are obtained on a large scale from sea water.

Sea water contains many dissolved salts but the slat which is abundant in seawater is sodium chloride.

So Sodium and chlorine are obtained on a large scale from sea water.


Other salts in sea water are MgCl2, CaCl2 etc.


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