Salts:

When an acid reacts along with a base, two products are formed; salt and a water.  A salt is an ionic compound that is composed of negative ions and positive ions. The ionic bond is what salts remain in their molecular form. A few compounds look like salts, but are in fact covalent compounds (have a covalent bond).

Example:

HCI _(aq) + NaOH_(aq) → Na⁺Cl^-  + H₂O

Acid                Base        Salt           Water

This category of acid-base reaction is known as neutralization.

Many soluble salts (potassium, principally sodium, magnesium, and calcium) which have the property of combining along with acids to form neutral salts are known as alkalies. Two of the general salts are sodium chloride (table salt) and calcium chloride (salt put on the road in winter). Different acids and bases, salts vary greatly within all their properties except their ionic features. Salts might taste salty, sour, bitter, sweet, astringent, or tasteless.  Solutions of salts might be basic, acidic, or neutral to acid-base indicators.  Fused aqueous and salts solutions of salts conduct an electric current.  A reactions of salts are numerous and varied.