salt

Also known as salts

ionic compound composed of cations and anions

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Salt is a chemical compound made up of positively and negatively charged particles bonded together, with table salt being the most familiar example. It matters because salt is essential for human health, food preservation, and countless industrial processes.

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Research

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Salt: The paradoxical philosopher's stone of autonomic medicine.ReviewAutonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2021Cheshire WPDOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2021.102895
[Can salt substitution or reduction replace pharmaceuticals for arterial hypertension?].ReviewInnere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Zidek WDOI: 10.1007/s00108-022-01312-0
Salt and hypertension.ReviewNephrology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2010Ritz EDOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2010.01311.x
Salt Reduction in Dough Production: A Comprehensive Review of Quality Changes and Regulation Strategies.ReviewJournal of texture studies · 2025Mei X, Qi Y, Ahmed Z et al.DOI: 10.1111/jtxs.70032
Himalayan Salt and Table Salt Intake among Hypertensive Individuals.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2022Dorna MS, Seki MMDOI: 10.36660/abc.20220243
Skin regulation of salt and blood pressure and potential clinical implications.ReviewHypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2023Martin K, Toussaint ND, Tan SJ et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41440-022-01096-8
Salt.The American journal of medicine · 1954MENEELY GRDOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(54)90317-4
Appropriate mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism and salt restriction are essential for primary aldosteronism therapy.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2023Sawami K, Tanaka A, Node KDOI: 10.1038/s41440-022-01155-0

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Commons category: Salts
name in kana: えん

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The crystal structure of sodium chloride, NaCl, a typical salt. The purple spheres represent sodium cations, Na, and the green spheres represent chloride anions, Cl. The yellow stipples show the electrostatic forces.

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge. The constituent ions are held together by electrostatic forces termed ionic bonds.