A salt is a compound of a metal and a nonmetal. It's a slam dunk to see how this works if you pull out a Periodic Table and look at it. Grab any element from Group 1 (the so-called alkali metals) or Group 2 (the so-called alkaline earth metals) with any element from Group 17 (the so-called halogens) and you have a salt.
The Group 1 and Group 2 elements are metals, and the Group 17 elements are non-metals. Note also that the Group 1 elements and Group 17 elements combine in a one-to-one ratio (like table salt - NaCl), and the Group 2 elements and Group 17 elements combine in a one-to-two ratio (like magnesium fluoride - MgF2).
Certainly these aren't the only examples of the combination of a metal and nonmetal to form a compound, but they go a long way to answer the question. As to the chemistry of all of this, it's a piece of cake. And you can handle these ideas with just a bit of work.
Wikipedia has a great periodic table posted, and it's interactive. Each of the elements listed on the chart is a link to the post on that element. Wow, what a time saver! Oh, and a link to that periodic table can be found below.
No general name, each compound is named first by the metal, followed by a name ending in -ide, hypo--ite, -ite, ate, per--ate, depending of the oxydation value of the nonmetal.
Example: potassium permanganate (per-mangan-ate)
Many compounds fit the bill, all of the metal nitrides, oxides, fluorides and chlorides.
Perhaps the most familiar is sodium chloride.
Ionic compounds are formed as the result of chemical bonding between a metal and a non-metal ion.
mercuric oxide
They usually form an Alloy.
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oxides are formed when a element reacts with Oxygen
P=non-metal and l= no-metal which means it is a covalent bond element one is P and element 2 is l
Carbon is a nonmetal. Although it is located near the metalloids, it is not sitting on the "staircase" of the periodic table. As a result, it displays properties of a nonmetal like low conductivity of energy.
Some molecular compounds, such as methyl mercury, contain both metals and nonmetals. Most molecular compounds contain only nonmetals, and all molecular compounds contain at least one nonmetal element.
Nitrogen and oxygen are gases, nonmetals.
It is true of binary ionic compounds but not necessarily of compounds containing polyatomic ions.
Salts are made of metal ions and nonmetal ions.
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Yes, this is true; the reaction is called neutralization.
Yes, this is true; the reaction is called neutralization.
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No.
it's a molecular compound due to the fact that it's made up of two non-metal elements. Ionic compounds and made up of a metal and a non-metal
Yes, it is true; the reaction is called neutralization.
The lead of a pencil is made mostly of the nonmetal carbon but the rest of the pencil is neither metal nor nonmetal (except for the bit of metal near the eraser) because it is not an element.
Neither. It's a salt which is formed from a neutralization reaction. For example, NaCl (sodium chloride) is table salt. It is made from a metal (sodium) and a nonmetal (chlorine).
Pure metals are neither, no pure element is and acid or an alkali, it is only compounds made from elements that have this property. When metals form compounds those compounds are typically alkaline.