sodium chloride
Chemists use the term salt to broadly refer to any ionic compound, but what most people call salt is table salt, also known as sodium chloride (NaCl). Table salt consists of molecules, each of which has one sodium atom and one chlorine atom. Sodium without chlorine, or chlorine without sodium, bears no resemblance to salt. Only when the two are combined, do you have salt. That is why salt is composed of molecules.
In chemistry, salts are the ionic compounds resulting from the neutralising reaction between an acid and a base.The everyday reference to 'salt' is the white crystaline sodium chloride that we sprinkle on food to (arguably) enhance the flavour of the food.
The term "saline" just means salty. A saline solution is water with salt in it. (This is not necessarily table salt, NaCl, but can be other salts as well.)
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The two elements that make up salt are sodium and chloride. Hence, the scientific term for common salt, sodium chloride. NaCl
table salt
Salt...plain old table salt.
The term beautiful is not adequate for table salt.
NaCl or table salt
The popular term for hydrochloric acid is hydrogen chloride. The combination of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide produces common table salt and water.
Sodium chloride is an ionic salt.
The generic term would be "salt"; not the specific "table salt" sodium chloride, but the general term.
Rock salt is the common term for halite. A common use for rock salt is to make the ice melt on highways in the winter.
Sodium Chloride, or NaCl
Table salt refers to sodium chloride. While in everyday terms the term salt refers to the same thing, in chemical terms salt can refer to almost any ionic compound of which sodium chloride is just one of many.
Table salt is made of a chlorine ion and a sodium ion. Sodium is a metal, and chlorine is a nonmetal. Salt on its own is neither; it is an ionic compound. Table salt is a salt. We use the term salt to mean table salt very often, but in chemistry, we have to refine our use of the term to include some other ideas. A salt is what results from the combination of an acid and a base. (Water is also produced.) Table salt, sodium chloride (NaCl), is one of many salts. Just for starters, any Group 1 or Group 2 metal combined with any halogen (the Group 17 nonmetals) forms a salt. And there are more. Remember to consider in what application you're using the term "salt" so you can plug into the right set of ideas. If we're talking about salt in the kitchen or on a cooking show, that's sodium chloride or table salt. In the chemistry lab, we've just used a general term that we have yet to make more specific.