A salt is a crystalline material consisting of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, and is electrically neutral as a whole. Table salt or sodium chloride (NaCl) is the best-known example. Salts often have metals such as sodium, potassium and magnesium as cations, and non-metals such as chlorine, acetate (CH3COO–) or sulphate (SO42-) as … Continue reading Salt as a special type of ceramics? →