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What is a *salt* and what is a *bleach*?

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Obviously, I’ve heard of table salt (NaCl), but I’ve also heard of others substances being called salts. What do they mean by something being a salt?

There’s the regular Clorox bleach that we use with whites, but then there is non-chlorine bleach. What is a bleach?

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A salt is the result of two chemicals mixing with different ionic charges.

Bleach is a term for any product chemical or otherwise that will “whiten” something colored like cloth or hair. Chlorine is one of the chemicals that has that property but not the only

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Thank you!

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