Are all salts that result as various mineral specimens ionically bonded?

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Are all salts that result as various mineral specimens ionically bonded?

2007-03-13 11:45:33 · 2 answers · asked by Gideon 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology

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I believe the very definition of a salt is an ionically bonded compound made up of cations and anions.

Therefore, yes anything that is a mineral salt will be ionically bonded. However, the individual ions may contain covalent bonds internally.

2007-03-13 12:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by gaurav19671031 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

By definition, a salt is a compound of an anion (or an anion group) and a cation. Cations and anions are both ions, a cation is a positively charged ion and an anion is a negatively charged ion. When two opposite ions are attracted to each other they combine with an ionic bond.

2007-03-13 12:51:20 · answer #2 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋