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Title: "Need Help"
Post by: ShawtyM on September 30, 2007, 12:22:20 PM

Why is it that N2O4 is not a salt?

Title: Re: "Need Help"
Post by: Yggdrasil on September 30, 2007, 01:11:19 PM

Salts (or ionic compounds) generally consist of metals and non-metals (e.g. NaCl, MgSO₄, Fe₂O₃).

Molecular compounds (or covalent compounds) generally consist of only non-metals (e.g. CH₃CH₂OH, C₆H₆, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁).

Title: Re: "Need Help"
Post by: ShawtyM on September 30, 2007, 01:15:17 PM

Quote from: Yggdrasil on September 30, 2007, 01:11:19 PM

Salts (or ionic compounds) generally consist of metals and non-metals (e.g. NaCl, MgSO₄, Fe₂O₃).

Molecular compounds (or covalent compounds) generally consist of only non-metals (e.g. CH₃CH₂OH, C₆H₆, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁).

thank you:)