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Is Salts made of a metal and a nonmetal?
Salts are made of metal ions and nonmetal ions.
What are inorganic metal salts?
Metal salts that contain no carbon except as carbonate/bicarbonate.
Name two properties of metal salts?
- all metal salts are ionic compounds - many salts are soluble in water and are dissociated
What are Mineral salts?
Two main components: a metal (or ammonium) as cation and an anion.
What do metal oxides form?
Metal Salts + water
What are nonmetallic salts?
Practically all salts contain a metal; exceptions, for example, are ammonium salts.
Why are metal oxides not categorized as salts?
Salts are not only compounds of oxygen.
What do salts produce when heated?
- some salts as NaCl can be melted - other salts as Na2CO3 are thermally decomposed, obtaining a metal oxide
How are metal salts produced?
Salts are the products of reactions between an acid and a base.
Metal used to make epsom salts?
Epsom salt is also known as magnesium sulfate. The metal that is used to make these salts is magnesium. Magnesium is an earthy alkaline metal.
Do salts contain a metal?
Yes, the cation in a salt is a metal or ammonium.
What is metal salts?
Examples are: nitrates, chlorides, sulfates, phosphates and many other.
