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I thought a salt was the product of combining an anion and a cation in an acid/base neutralization?
 
Originally posted by: gururu
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
And a salt is just an acid that has had its hydrogen replaced by metals?
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well, almost anything with an undisrupted ionic bond is a salt.
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Would you agree with this definition from Dictionary.com of a salt?

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A chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or electropositive radicals.
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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: gururu
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
And a salt is just an acid that has had its hydrogen replaced by metals?
Click to expand...


well, almost anything with an undisrupted ionic bond is a salt.
Click to expand...

Would you agree with this definition from Dictionary.com of a salt?

-
A chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or electropositive radicals.
-
Click to expand...


yea that works. although I think you can get salts through other means, without using acids, such as injecting chlorine gas into a container containing elemental sodium under vacuum. I'm not certain about this though.
 
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