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In chemistry, salt is a neutral compound composed of ions. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) Salt covering the floor of Bad Water in Death Valley, CA, the lowest point in the US. A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral...

The word salt may also refer to:

• Edible salt or table salt, used as a flavour enhancer and preservative for food
• Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt
• Salt (cryptography), an initialization vector of a block cipher
• Syntactic salt, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad computer code

→ see also salting and its multiple meanings Edible salt is mostly sodium chloride (NaCl). ... This articles section called Other facts does not cite its references or sources. ... In cryptography, a salt consists of random bits used as one of the inputs to a key derivation function. ... Syntactic sugar is a term coined by Peter J. Landin for additions to the syntax of a computer language that do not affect its expressiveness but make it sweeter for humans to use. ... Salting is the preparation of food with salt. ...

The name Salt may refer to:

• Salt Grammar School , (11-18, community comprehensive school, maths and computing college, in Bradford)
• Salt (band), an indie rock band from Sweden
• Salt (vocal group), a bluegrass duo from Vancouver
• Sir Titus Salt (1803–1876), English textile manufacturer and benefactor
• Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), English writer and campaigner for social reforms
• Henry Salt (Egyptologist) (1780–1827), English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist
• Cheryl "Salt" James, an entrepreneur and hip-hop icon
• Salt River, the name of a number of rivers in the U.S.
• Salt, Jordan, a provincial town in Western Jordan
• Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - http://www.salt.edu/
• Salt of the Earth, a 1954 U.S. film by Herbert J. Biberman
• Salt (EP), a 2000 release by breakcore artist Venetian Snares
• Salt, a book by Adam Roberts published in 2000
• Salt, a town in Spain.

The acronym SALT may refer to: The larger City of Bradford Metropolitan District includes other settlements in the surrounding area. ... Salt was a Swedish band based in Stockholm and was active in the 1990s. ... Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 - 29 December 1876), born in Morley, was a manufacturer and benefactor in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. ... Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) was an influential English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions and the treatment of animals – he was a noted anti-vivisectionist and pacifist. ... Henry Salt (June 14, 1780 – October 30, 1827) was an English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist. ... Cheryl Salt James is an American R&B/hip-hop singer, and a member of the female rap trio known as Salt-N-Pepa. ... Salt River may refer to: The Salt River in Arizona in the United States The Salt River in Kentucky in the United States Two rivers named the Salt River in Michigan in the United States The Salt River in Missouri in the United States The Salt River in the U... Salt (Arabic: As-Salt -- pronounced As Sàlt) is an ancient agricultural town and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. ... For other uses, see Salt of the earth. ... Aaron Funk Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. ... Salt is a novel by British science fiction author Adam Roberts. ... Adam Roberts (born 1960) is a Song writer and an academic with Middlewich High School. ...

• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, nuclear weapon talks between the USA and USSR
• Southern African Large Telescope, an optical telescope located in the Karoo, South Africa
• Speech Application Language Tags, a markup language speech recognition applications on the Web
• Socialist ALTernative, a minor political party in many countries. [1]
• "S.A.L.T.", a song on the 1997 album Orblivion by The Orb

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties between the Soviet Union and United States, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of armament control. ... The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 10 metre (~32. ... Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is an XML based markup language that is used in HTML and XHTML pages to add voice recognition capabilities to web based applications. ... Orblivion is a 1997 album by The Orb released by Island Records. ...

See also

• Salt-glazed

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