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There are many, many, many salts. Table salt, the one you are thinking of, happens to be one that tastes good and is a requirement for health.

Salts are ionic compounds made up of two elements. A salt results when an acid and a base react with each other and cancel each other out. In the case of table salt, these two elements are sodium (Na) and chlorine (Cl).

Calcium chloride (de-icer) is a salt. So is potassium chloride, a substitute for people who cannot eat table salt.

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