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NWcoaststar NWcoaststar
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We call the ocean salty because it contains dissolved components of salts such as: NaCl, KCl, CaSO4, and CaCO3. When these salts dissolve they dissociate into components that are technically no longer salts, but are called...

a) Molecules  
b) Elements  
c) Ions  
d) Atoms  
e) Compounds  

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c) ions.
salts have ionic bonding, and when they dissociate (dissolve) they separate and thus become single ions instead of a solid lattice
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