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?

When we taste salt, we’re not actually tasting the entire compound, sodium chloride. What we’re tasting and responding to are the sodium *ions*, Na^+ , that result when salt dissolves into solution.