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salt is organic or inorganic?

salt is organic or inorganic?

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Inorganic -- does not contain carbon.
any salt is ionic which means ionic bonds, and carbon mostly forms covalent bonds, so it is very very unlikely that a salt contains carbon making it organic so most if not all salts are inorganic
Salts are ions such as NaCl. Organic salts contain carbon and inorganic salts contain no carbon. So NaCl would be an inorganic salt.
If you mean table salt, NaCl then it's inorganic. No Carbons there.
inorganic

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