Examples are: nitrates, chlorides, sulfates, phosphates and many other.
Salts are made of metal ions and nonmetal ions.
Metal salts that contain no carbon except as carbonate/bicarbonate.
- all metal salts are ionic compounds - many salts are soluble in water and are dissociated
Metal Salts + water
Two main components: a metal (or ammonium) as cation and an anion.
Practically all salts contain a metal; exceptions, for example, are ammonium salts.
Salts are not only compounds of oxygen.
- some salts as NaCl can be melted - other salts as Na2CO3 are thermally decomposed, obtaining a metal oxide
Salts are the products of reactions between an acid and a base.
Yes, the cation in a salt is a metal or ammonium.
All salts contain a cation which is generally a metal or ammonium.
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.