salt is sodium chloride, the 'ide' is the giveaway. 'ides' as in 'oxide', meaning there was an oxygen reaction needed to get to that part. Meaning heat. You put sodium and chlorine and mix oxygen, then ignite that oxygen, then, and only then do you get the oxide salt.
What are you smoking? The 'ide' just means whatever it's after is part of it. NaCl (sodium chloride) has no parts oxygen. Oxygen is not required to make salts.
Yes it is. Oxygen is an oxidant. Remember air is 24% oxygen. Chloride is an ion that has gained an electron. Which means oxygen was involved, oxygen is the most abundant oxidant.
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