________ is the latin name for sodium.
Answer the following questions related to salts and their preparations :
(a) What is a 'salt'?
(b) What kind of salt is prepared by precipitation?
(c) Name a salt prepared by a direct combination. Write an equation for the reaction that takes place in preparing the salt you have named.
(d) Name the procedure used to prepare a sodium salt such as sodium sulphate.
Name the compound prepared from : (a) sodium propionate, (b) methyl iodide and (c) ethyl bromide. Write a balanced equation for the same.