2.5 Acids, Bases and Salts
chemistry
Salts
Salts are ionic compounds formed when acids and bases react.
- Salts are also produced when oxides or carbonates react with acids, or when metals react with acids.
Table salt, NaCl, is found in seawater, salt lakes or rock deposits.
- Salt was once very valuable as a commodity.
- Iodine is now added to salt to minimize goiter (a disease of the thyroid)
NaCl is only one kind of salt
- A salt is made up of a positive ion from a base and negative ion from an acid.
- Salts are found in many things
- In batteries, explosives and fertilizers
- In multivitamins
- In many living cells