Now, ionic salts represent ionic compounds that are formed when an acid or base undergo a neutralization reaction. Here, for example, we have hydrochloric acid reacting with sodium hydroxide. When they react, we are going to create our ionic salt, which is basically sodium chloride aqueous and then we'll have water being formed as well.
Now this ionic salt of sodium chloride, we're going to say based on its identity, the salt can either be acidic, basic, or neutral. So in these series of videos, we're going to take a look at the steps necessary to determine if our ionic salt overall is acidic, basic, or neutral.
