2006-10-25 11:11:01 · 6 answers · asked by chipper1963 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Ya, it would look like all ionic bonds are salts because a salt is defined as being an ionic compound between cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negatively charged ions). And since you can't have an ionic compound between anything but a cation and anion (because the charges of two cations or two anions would repel each other) than all ionic compounds must be between a cation and an anion.
2006-10-25 11:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by smiley5671 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ionic Bond Wiki
2016-12-11 16:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by puiatti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ionic bonds exist in many other compounds not just salts..
the definition of a salt is a compound formed when the hydrogen in an acid is replaced by a metal cation
2006-10-25 11:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by harry_moloney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bonds are called ionic, polar, etc. in accordance to the version in electronegativity of the two aspects of the two atoms in touch. while the version is great that's an ionic bond. while that's smaller that's polar. And there are others.... a salt has case in point NaCl sodium chloride, in easy terms a fuckton of sodium and chloride atoms. sodium is electropositive and chlorine is amazingly electronegative, as a effect the version is great and is characterised as ionic
2016-12-08 21:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by ricaurte 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, oxides of metals - Na2O, CaO etc- hydroxides of metals - NaOH, Ca(OH)2 etc - are also ionic bonds. Generally when an electronegative element - a non-metal - combines with an electropositive element - a metal - the bond is ionic, for example Mg2N3, Na3P etc.
2006-10-25 11:22:16 · answer #5 · answered by Dimos F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here is a good website to read up on ionic bonds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic_bonds
2006-10-25 11:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by gordon_benbow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋