Epsom salt is a naturally occurring mineral salt and is a chemical compound made up of magnesium, sulfur and oxygen. While it shares part of its name with table salt, Epsom salt is a completely ...

Other compounds are made from different combinations of atoms, like water… carbon dioxide… and table salt. And that’s ... that there are actually 118 chemical elements.

A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic compound sodium chloride is formed. A sodium and chlorine atom are near ...