When Salt breaks from Sodium chloride in water to sodium ions and chloride ions, shouldn’t it no longer be chemically salt? If so why is water salty?

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When Salt breaks from Sodium chloride in water to sodium ions and chloride ions, shouldn’t it no longer be chemically salt? If so why is water salty?

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> If so why is water salty?

We taste Na+, *not salt*.

> shouldn’t it no longer be chemically salt?

It’s not, it’s aqueous sodium ions and chloride ions, i.e. an electrolyte. If you mix two salts, e.g. salt and KBr in water and dry it, you get a mess of all four possible ccombination when it crystalizes.