Preparation of salts

When you want to make a soluble salt, you would add an appropriate metal to an insoluble base. Does it have to be insoluble and why? If that's the case, and you wanted to use a soluble base, then how would the experimental technique differ?

Thank you in advance.

When you want to make a soluble salt, you would add an appropriate metal to an insoluble base. Does it have to be insoluble and why? If that's the case, and you wanted to use a soluble base, then how would the experimental technique differ?

Thank you in advance.

What about sodium hydroxide, thats a very soluble alkali and can be used to make a salt.

Unless you meant the exclusion of acid-base reactions?

So you can add any base to a metal to get a salt. Then when do you do a titration and what do you mean by 'the exclusion of acid-base reactions'?

In your question you talked about metal-base reactions, so I thought that maybe you were asking only about them, not acids and bases.

As for titrations, I have no idea charco has to answer because I thought they were only used to find the exact amount/volume of reagent needed to react, by using indicators etc.

Oh and I'm not 100% sure adding "any" base to any acid will create a salt, but it probably will, thinking back to GCSE, that was te general equation yeah. And even now I'm pretty sure any acid such as carboxylic acids will stil produce salts

EDIT: Sorry if this has confused you

EDIT 2:Just realized that I haven't read the question. NO adding any metal to any base will not produce a salt. There are unreactive metals

EDIT 3: Can you give me a specific question, I feel like I'm not helping at all because I dont know the question....

My problem is that I don't really know what method should be used when. I haven't come across a question yet though. Would you know a site where I can revise the preparation of salts?