text: In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. These ions can be inorganic (Cl−) as well as organic (CH3−COO−) and monoatomic (F−) as well as polyatomic ions (SO42−).\n\nA metallic salt has a metal as the cation.\n\nNote that "ionic compound" means the bond is not covalent.