Question

What is the kind of bond that forms a salt?

Answer 1

Generally salts are going to be formed when an acid is going to react with a base. Means salts are going to be formed at the time of neutralization of an acid with a base. The formed slats are soluble in polar solvents like water.

Complete answer:
- In the question it is asked to find the kind of the bond that a salt contains.
- We can understand the type of bond present in salt by taking an example of sodium chloride.
- The molecular or chemical formula of sodium chloride is NaCl.
- The sodium chloride is going to form when HCl is going to react with Sodium hydroxide and the chemical reaction of formation of sodium chloride from HCl and NaOH is as follows.
$HCl+NaOH\to \underset{Salt}{\mathop{NaCl}}\,+{{H}_{2}}O$
- The salt which is formed in the above chemical reaction is sodium chloride and it is soluble in water.
- Whenever we are going to add sodium chloride to water, the salt is going to solubilize by generating the ions called $N{{a}^{+}}$ and $C{{l}^{-}}$ ions.
- Means the cation and anion in the salt are connected with an electrostatic force of attraction.
- Therefore the bond which is present in the salts is purely ionic in nature.

Note:
The ionic compounds means the salts are highly soluble in polar solvents like water. The reason behind the solubility of the salts in water is the capability to generate cation and anion by the salts in water.