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Sodium is a soft, reactive metal.
Chlorine is a poisionous, reactive gas.
Expose them to one another and they will form table salt, through ionic bonding. The compound is bonded throughout, forming a geometric matrix of bonds.
If submerged in water, it will be dissolved into free Na+ and Cl- ions.
Why then, does dissolved salt still have the properties of salt and not the individual, free ions?
Chlorine is a poisionous, reactive gas.
Expose them to one another and they will form table salt, through ionic bonding. The compound is bonded throughout, forming a geometric matrix of bonds.
If submerged in water, it will be dissolved into free Na+ and Cl- ions.
Why then, does dissolved salt still have the properties of salt and not the individual, free ions?