text: what is metallic salt?   in chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. these ions can be inorganic (cl−) as well as organic (ch3−coo−) and monoatomic (f−) as well as polyatomic ions (so42−).  a metallic salt has a metal as the cation.  note that "ionic compound" means the bond is not covalent.