When salt dissolves in water the salt particles break apart and form positive sodium and negative chlorine ions If salt particles break apart why does the water still taste salty?

Answer 1

It tastes salty only because the sodium and chlorine ions are able to get apart. If you take a clean rock out of a river, it does not have any taste usually, because nothing gets dissolved, so nothing can be tasted.

So the salty taste is the direct result of free chlorine and sodium ions. Ions are called because they are active, free atoms in this case. As for tongue, it is the average that hits the taste cells that counts. With size of one ion being one tenth of a nanometer you will get billions and billions of these atoms in the tiniest amount of volume you can ever imagine.

Answer 2

Water is a polar molecule, which means that one end is slightly positive,and the other is slightly negative. Positive sodium ions become surrounded by the negative ends of water molecules, and negative chloride ions by the positive ends. This separates the ions and they become free to move off into solution. This is largely because the entropy increases in this process.

Answer 3

Even though the salt molecules break apart into ions in water, the taste buds on our tongues can still detect the presence of these ions. The sodium and chlorine ions that are released when salt dissolves in water can still interact with our taste receptors, giving the sensation of saltiness even though the physical salt particles are no longer present.

Answer 4

Water ions attract strongly ions of sodium and chlorine from salt up to dissociation.