When electric current is passed through molten sodium chloride, it decomposes to give sodium metal and chlorine gas :

Which of the following is true for the above reaction?

In the electrolysis of molten NaCl, the reaction taking place is shown below $\underset{\left(\mathrm{molten}\right)}{\mathrm{NaCl}}\stackrel{\mathrm{Electricity}}{\to }\mathrm{Na}+{\mathrm{Cl}}_2$

It is an electrolytic decomposition.

It is a chemical decomposition of a compound to form two compounds.

It is also called the electrolysis of molten sodium chloride.