Obviously, I’ve heard of table salt (NaCl), but I’ve also heard of others substances being called salts. What do they mean by something being a salt?
There’s the regular Clorox bleach that we use with whites, but then there is non-chlorine bleach. What is a bleach?
First question first. The ions in the salt dissociate with one another and more or less freely flow in the water.
Second, as far as I know, the hypochlorite ion has a covalent bond holding it together. It’s just not a very stable bond.