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Title: Definition of a Salt
Post by: Scratch- on April 23, 2004, 06:35:36 PM

What exactly is the definition of a salt? I want to make a collection of salt crystals and I'm not sure what the definition is.

Edit: edited title for better indexing. Mitch

Title: Re:Salts
Post by: Mitch on April 23, 2004, 06:49:22 PM

Anything that has an ionic bond is loosely called a salt. Na⁺Cl^- as a typical example.

Title: Re:Salts
Post by: Scratch- on April 23, 2004, 07:09:15 PM

Err... I just discovered that about half my chemistry knowledge has gone down the drain in the last year. Lol

Title: Re:Definition of a Salt
Post by: Donaldson Tan on April 27, 2004, 07:59:08 AM

A salt is formed when a proton of a bronsted acid is replaced by a cation.

scratch: I have stopped schooling for almost 2.5years already. I should be more brain-rusty than you.

 ;D

Title: Re:Definition of a Salt
Post by: Scratch- on April 27, 2004, 11:03:49 AM

Yeah but I never had most of the knowlege to begin with.  :P