Define mineral salts

Question

Define mineral salts? Where in living beings can mineral salts are found?

Answer 1

Mineral salts are just simple inorganic substances made up of metallic chemical elements, such as sodium, iron, potassium, calcium and magnesium, or of non-metallic elements, such as chlorine and phosphorus.

They can be mainly found in non-solubilized form, as portion of structures of the organism, such as the calcium in bones. They can as well be found solubilized in water, as ions: for illustration, the sodium and potassium cations in cells.