Dietary Sodium

Salt; Sodium, Dietary

This article is about the general chemical term salt. For the everyday meaning, see edible salt or its main ingredient, sodium chloride. For other meanings of the word salt, see salt (disambiguation). A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). These component ions can be inorganic (Cl−) as well as orga ...