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Is table salt a compound? how can you tell?​

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Chemically, table salt consists of two elements, sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl). Neither element occurs separately and free in nature, but are found bound together as the compound sodium chloride.

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Answer: Salt is an ionic compound, consisting of a crystal, lattice structure of the two ions Na+ and Cl-. Salt water is full of sodium chloride molecules.

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