Talk:Ionic compound

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[edit] One metal and one nonmetal required?

I'm pretty sure this is wrong, I mean look at table salt, (NaCl), this comes from two non-metals, and is definetly an ionic compound.

Your point is correct, but your example is however wrong. Sodium (Na) is a typical metal, but ammonium chloride (NH₄Cl) on the other hand is entirely composed of non-metals, as well as choline chloride and a number of other ionic compounds. I will correct this. :)

[edit] what happened?

This used to much more detailed - what happened it.

What about the properties of ionic compounds, I started writing but some idiots deleted it all.

A GCSE text book is more detailed thanb this.

A level students will find this almost useless.

Someone please rectify —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.41.8.213 (talk) 15:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC).

Are you sure you're looking at the right page? I went through the whole edit history and found no substantial deletions of material, and there are no listings in the deletion log either, in case the whole article would have been deleted. Perhaps you wrote in the article about salt, or perhaps you didn't save your changes? (What's the difference between an ionic compound and a salt anyway? I've always wondered, and neither this article nor the one about salt says it explicitly.) //74.56.128.244 16:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)