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SALT

S0046500 (sôlt)abbr. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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S0046500 (sôlt)n.1. A usually whitish crystalline solid, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called common salt, table salt.2. An ionic chemical compound formed by replacing all or part of the hydrogen ions of an acid with metal ions or other cations.3. salts Any of various mineral salts used as laxatives or cathartics.4. salts Smelling salts.5. often salts Epsom salts.6. An element that gives flavor or zest.7. Sharp lively wit.8. Informal A sailor, especially when old or experienced.9. A saltcellar.adj.1. Containing or filled with salt: a salt spray; salt tears.2. Having a salty taste or smell: breathed the salt air.3. Preserved in salt or a salt solution: salt mackerel.4. a. Flooded with seawater.b. Found in or near such a flooded area: salt grasses.tr.v. salt·ed, salt·ing, salts 1. To add, treat, season, or sprinkle with salt.2. To cure or preserve by treating with salt or a salt solution.3. To provide salt for (deer or cattle).4. To add zest or liveliness to: salt a lecture with anecdotes.5. To give an appearance of value to by fraudulent means, especially to place valuable minerals in (a mine) for the purpose of deceiving.Phrasal Verbs: salt away To put aside; save. salt out To separate (a dissolved substance) by adding salt to the solution.Idioms: salt of the earth1. A person or group considered as embodying simplicity and moral integrity.2. Archaic A person or group considered the best or most worthy part of society. worth (one's) salt Efficient and capable.

[Middle English, from Old English sealt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]

salt

(sɔːlt) n1. (Elements & Compounds) a white powder or colourless crystalline solid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and used for seasoning and preserving food2. (Elements & Compounds) (modifier) preserved in, flooded with, containing, or growing in salt or salty water: salt pork; salt marshes. 3. (Chemistry) chem any of a class of usually crystalline solid compounds that are formed from, or can be regarded as formed from, an acid and a base by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms in the acid molecules by positive ions from the base4. liveliness or pungency: his wit added salt to the discussion. 5. dry or laconic wit6. (Nautical Terms) a sailor, esp one who is old and experienced7. (Cookery) short for saltcellar8. rub salt into someone's wounds to make someone's pain, shame, etc, even worse9. salt of the earth a person or group of people regarded as the finest of their kind10. with a grain of salt with a pinch of salt with reservations; sceptically11. worth one's salt efficient; worthy of one's payvb (tr) 12. (Cookery) to season or preserve with salt13. to scatter salt over (an icy road, path, etc) to melt the ice14. to add zest to15. (Cookery) (often foll by: down or away) to preserve or cure with salt or saline solution16. (Chemistry) chem to treat with common salt or other chemical salt17. (Agriculture) to provide (cattle, etc) with salt18. (Mining & Quarrying) to give a false appearance of value to, esp to introduce valuable ore fraudulently into (a mine, sample, etc)adj19. (Physiology) not sour, sweet, or bitter; salty20. obsolete rank or lascivious (esp in the phrase a salt wit)[Old English sealt; related to Old Norse, Gothic salt, German Salz, Lettish sāls, Latin sāl, Greek hals] ˈsaltish adj ˈsaltless adj ˈsaltˌlike adj ˈsaltness n

SALT

(sɔːlt) n acronym for (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or Treaty

salt

(sɔlt)

n. 1. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring chiefly as a mineral or a constituent of seawater, and used for seasoning food and as a preservative. 2. any of a class of chemical compounds formed by neutralization of an acid by a base, a reaction in which hydrogen atoms of the acid are replaced by cations supplied by the base. 3. table salt mixed with an herb or seasoning as named: onion salt. 4. an element that gives liveliness or pungency. 5. sharp, biting wit. 6. a sailor, esp. an old or experienced one. v.t. 7. to season with salt. 8. to cure or preserve with salt. 9. to provide with salt: to salt cattle. 10. to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt. 11. to spread salt on so as to melt snow or ice. 12. to introduce rich ore fraudulently into (a mine, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value. 13. salt away, a. Also, salt down. to preserve by adding salt to, as meat. b. to save (money) for future use. 14. salt out, to separate (a dissolved substance) from a solution by the addition of a salt, esp. common salt. adj. 15. containing salt, or tasting of salt: a salt drink. 16. cured or preserved with salt: salt cod. 17. inundated by salt water. 18. salty (def. 1). Idioms: 1. take with a grain or pinch of salt, to be somewhat skeptical about. 2. worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary. [before 900; (n. and adj.) Middle English; Old English sealt, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse Gothic salt, Old High German, German salz; akin to Latin sāl, Greek háls; (v.) Middle English salten, Old English s(e)altan] salt′like`, adj. syn: See sailor.

SALT

(sɔlt)

n. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (or Treaty).

salt

(sôlt)1. A colorless or white crystalline solid, NaCl, found naturally in all animal fluids, seawater, and in underground deposits. It is used widely as a food seasoning and preservative. Also called sodium chloride.2. Any of a large class of chemical compounds formed when one or more hydrogen ions of an acid are replaced by metallic ions. Salts have an electric charge, conduct electricity, and dissolve completely in water.

salt

Past participle: salted
Gerund: salting

Imperative
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Present
I salt
you salt
he/she/it salts
we salt
you salt
they salt

Preterite
I salted
you salted
he/she/it salted
we salted
you salted
they salted

Present Continuous
I am salting
you are salting
he/she/it is salting
we are salting
you are salting
they are salting

Present Perfect
I have salted
you have salted
he/she/it has salted
we have salted
you have salted
they have salted

Past Continuous
I was salting
you were salting
he/she/it was salting
we were salting
you were salting
they were salting

Past Perfect
I had salted
you had salted
he/she/it had salted
we had salted
you had salted
they had salted

Future
I will salt
you will salt
he/she/it will salt
we will salt
you will salt
they will salt

Future Perfect
I will have salted
you will have salted
he/she/it will have salted
we will have salted
you will have salted
they will have salted

Future Continuous
I will be salting
you will be salting
he/she/it will be salting
we will be salting
you will be salting
they will be salting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been salting
you have been salting
he/she/it has been salting
we have been salting
you have been salting
they have been salting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been salting
you will have been salting
he/she/it will have been salting
we will have been salting
you will have been salting
they will have been salting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been salting
you had been salting
he/she/it had been salting
we had been salting
you had been salting
they had been salting

Conditional
I would salt
you would salt
he/she/it would salt
we would salt
you would salt
they would salt

Past Conditional
I would have salted
you would have salted
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we would have salted
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Salt

While salt usually meant sodium chloride used as a food seasoning and as a food preservative, it sometimes referred to a small salt container. Same as a Table salt.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	salt - a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)acetate, ethanoate - a salt or ester of acetic acidcitrate - a salt or ester of citric acidarsenate - a salt or ester of arsenic acidchlorate - any salt of chloric aciddibasic salt - a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per moleculehypochlorite - any salt or ester of hypochlorous acidpyrophosphate - a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acidsulfonate - a salt of sulphonic acidlactate - a salt or ester of lactic acidperchlorate - a salt of perchloric acidalkali - a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agricultureammonium chloride, sal ammoniac - a white salt used in dry cellsbenzoate - any salt or ester of benzoic acidborate - a salt or ester of boric acidborosilicate - a salt of boric and silicic acidscalcium lactate - a white crystalline salt made by the action of lactic acid on calcium carbonate; used in foods (as a baking powder) and given medically as a source of calciumcalcium octadecanoate, calcium stearate - an insoluble calcium salt of stearic acid and palmitic acid; it is formed when soap is mixed with water that contains calcium ions and is the scum produced in regions of hard watercarbamate - a salt (or ester) of carbamic acidcarbonate - a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3)fulminate - a salt or ester of fulminic acidchromate - any salt or ester of chromic acidchemical compound, compound - (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weightcyanide - an extremely poisonous salt of hydrocyanic acidpotassium bromide - a white crystalline salt (KBr) used as a sedative and in photographypotassium chlorate - a white salt (KClO3) used in matches, fireworks, and explosives; also used as a disinfectant and bleaching agentpotassium dichromate - an orange-red salt used in making dyes and in photographyferricyanide - salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanideferrocyanide - salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphatefluoroboride - a salt of fluoroboric acidfluosilicate - salt of fluosilicic acidglutamate - a salt or ester of glutamic acidhalide - a salt of any halogen acidisocyanate - a salt or ester of isocyanic acidcalcium chloride - a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agentcalcium sulfate, calcium sulphate - a white salt (CaSO4)manganate - a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anionchrome alum - a violet-colored salt used in hide tanning and as a mordant in dyeingtartrate - a salt or ester of tartaric acidoxalacetate, oxaloacetate - a salt or ester of oxalacetic acidoxalate - a salt or ester of oxalic acidpermanganate - a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antisepticinorganic phosphate, orthophosphate, phosphate - a salt of phosphoric acidpolyphosphate - a salt or ester of polyphosphoric acidacrylate, propenoate - a salt or ester of propenoic acidsalicylate - a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs)double salt - a solution of two simple salts that forms a single substance on crystallizationbile salt - a salt of bile acid and a base; functions as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acidsGlauber's salt, Glauber's salts - (Na2SO4.10H2O) a colorless salt used as a catharticcream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate, tartar - a salt used especially in baking powdersodium chlorate - a colorless salt (NaClO3) used as a weed killer and an antisepticbichromate, dichromate - a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acidsodium bichromate, sodium dichromate - a red-orange salt used as a mordantmicrocosmic salt - a white salt present in urine and used to test for metal oxidessilicate - a salt or ester derived from silicic acidsal soda, soda, soda ash, sodium carbonate, washing soda - a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
	2.	salt - white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve foodtable salt, common saltflavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner - something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts
	3.	SALT - negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weaponsStrategic Arms Limitation Talks
	4.	salt - the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouthsalinity, saltinessgustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation - the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"
Verb	1.	salt - add salt tocookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"flavor, flavour, season - lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
	2.	salt - sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"splash, sprinkle, splosh - cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; "She splashed the water around her"
	3.	salt - add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"spice, spice up - make more interesting or flavorful; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer"
	4.	salt - preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"preserve, keep - prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"
Adj.	1.	salt - (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"sharp - keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point; "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds"

salt

noun1. seasoning, sodium chloride, table salt, rock salt a pinch of salt2. sailor, marine, seaman, mariner, tar (informal), hearty (informal), navigator, sea dog, seafarer, matelot (slang, chiefly Brit.), Jack Tar, seafaring man, lascar, leatherneck (slang) `Did he look like an old sea salt?' I asked, laughing.verb1. add salt to, flavour with salt Salt the stock to your taste.adjective1. salty, salted, saline, brackish, briny Put a pan of salt water on to boil.rub salt into the wound make something worse, add insult to injury, fan the flames, aggravate matters, magnify a problem I had no intention of rubbing salt into his wounds.with a grain or pinch of salt sceptically, suspiciously, cynically, doubtfully, with reservations, disbelievingly, mistrustfully You have to take these findings with a pinch of salt.

salt

nounInformal. A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship:jack (uppercase), jack-tar, mariner, navigator, sailor, sea dog, seafarer, seaman.Informal: tar.Slang: gob.phrasal verb
salt away1. To reserve for the future:keep, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, save (up), set by.2. To place (money) in a bank:bank, deposit, lay away.Informal: sock away.

Translations

盐盐类加盐于...腌含盐的水手

salt

(soːlt) noun1. (also common salt) sodium chloride, a white substance frequently used for seasoning. The soup needs more salt.盐2. any other substance formed, like common salt, from a metal and an acid. 盐类3. a sailor, especially an experienced one. an old salt. （老练的）水手 adjective containing, tasting of, preserved in salt. salt water; salt pork. 含盐的，用盐腌制的 verb to put salt on or in. Have you salted the potatoes?加盐于...腌ˈsalted adjective (negative unsalted) containing or preserved with salt. salted butter; salted beef. 盐味的，盐腌的 ˈsaltness noun 含盐度，咸性 ˈsalty adjective containing or tasting of salt. Tears are salty water.咸的ˈsaltiness noun咸性bath salts a usually perfumed mixture of certain salts added to bath water. 浴盐the salt of the earth a very good or worthy person. People like her are the salt of the earth. 高尚的人，社会中坚 take (something) with a grain/pinch of salt to receive (a statement, news etc) with a slight feeling of disbelief. I took his story with a pinch of salt. 对某事有保留，持怀疑态度

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Pass the salt, please → 请把盐递给我

SALT

SALT,

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: see disarmament, nucleardisarmament, nuclear,
the reduction and limitation of the various nuclear weapons in the military forces of the world's nations. The atomic bombs dropped (1945) on Japan by the United States in World War II demonstrated the overwhelming destructive potential of nuclear weapons
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salt,

chemical compound (other than water) formed by a chemical reaction between an acid and a base (see acids and basesacids and bases,
two related classes of chemicals; the members of each class have a number of common properties when dissolved in a solvent, usually water. Properties
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Characteristics and Classification of Salts

The most familiar salt is sodium chloridesodium chloride,
NaCl, common salt. Properties

Sodium chloride is readily soluble in water and insoluble or only slightly soluble in most other liquids. It forms small, transparent, colorless to white cubic crystals.
..... Click the link for more information. , the principal component of common table salt. Sodium chloride, NaCl, and water, H₂O, are formed by neutralizationneutralization,
chemical reaction, according to the Arrhenius theory of acids and bases, in which a water solution of acid is mixed with a water solution of base to form a salt and water; this reaction is complete only if the resulting solution has neither acidic nor basic
..... Click the link for more information. of sodium hydroxide, NaOH, a base, with hydrogen chloride, HCl, an acid: HCl+NaOH→NaCl+H₂O. Most salts are ionic compounds (see chemical bondchemical bond,
mechanism whereby atoms combine to form molecules. There is a chemical bond between two atoms or groups of atoms when the forces acting between them are strong enough to lead to the formation of an aggregate with sufficient stability to be regarded as an
..... Click the link for more information. ); they are made up of ionsion,
atom or group of atoms having a net electric charge. Positive and Negative Electric Charges

A neutral atom or group of atoms becomes an ion by gaining or losing one or more electrons or protons.
..... Click the link for more information. rather than molecules. The chemical formulaformula,
in chemistry, an expression showing the chemical composition of a compound. Formulas of compounds are used in writing the equations (see chemical equations) that represent chemical reactions. Compounds are combinations in fixed proportions of the chemical elements.
..... Click the link for more information. for an ionic salt is an empirical formula; it does not represent a molecule but shows the proportion of atoms of the elements that make up the salt. The formula for sodium chloride, NaCl, indicates that equal numbers of sodium and chlorine atoms combine to form the salt. In the reaction of sodium with chlorine, each sodium atom loses an electron, becoming positively charged, and each chlorine atom gains an electron, becoming negatively charged (see oxidation and reductionoxidation and reduction,
complementary chemical reactions characterized by the loss or gain, respectively, of one or more electrons by an atom or molecule. Originally the term oxidation
..... Click the link for more information. ); there are equal numbers of positively charged sodium ions and negatively charged chloride ions in sodium chloride. The ions in a solid salt are usually arranged in a definite crystalline structure, each positive ion being associated with a fixed number of negative ions, and vice versa.

A salt that has neither hydrogen (H) nor hydroxyl (OH) in its formula, e.g., sodium chloride (NaCl), is called a normal salt. A salt that has hydrogen in its formula, e.g., sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃), is called an acid salt. A salt that has hydroxyl in its formula, e.g., basic lead nitrate (Pb[OH]NO₃), is called a basic salt. Since a salt may react with a solvent to yield different ions than were present in the salt (see hydrolysishydrolysis
, chemical reaction of a compound with water, usually resulting in the formation of one or more new compounds. The most common hydrolysis occurs when a salt of a weak acid or weak base (or both) is dissolved in water.
..... Click the link for more information. ), a solution of a normal salt may be acidic or basic; e.g., trisodium phosphate, Na₃PO₄, dissolves in and reacts with water to form a basic solution.

In addition to being classified as normal, acid, or basic, salts are categorized as simple salts, double salts, or complex salts. Simple salts, e.g., sodium chloride, contain only one kind of positive ion (other than the hydrogen ion in acid salts). Double salts contain two different positive ions, e.g., the mineral dolomite, or calcium magnesium carbonate, CaMg(CO₃)₂. Alumsalum
, any one of a series of isomorphous double salts that are hydrated sulfates of a univalent cation (e.g., potassium, sodium, ammonium, cesium, or thallium) and a trivalent cation (e.g., aluminum, chromium, iron, manganese, cobalt, or titanium).
..... Click the link for more information. are a special kind of double salt. Complex salts, e.g., potassium ferricyanide, K₃Fe(CN)₆, contain a complex ion that does not dissociate in solution. A hydratehydrate
, chemical compound that contains water. A common hydrate is the familiar blue vitriol, a crystalline form of cupric sulfate. Chemically, it is cupric sulfate pentahydrate, CuSO₄·5H₂O.
..... Click the link for more information. is a salt that includes water in its solid crystalline form; Glauber's salt and Epsom salts are hydrates.

Salts are often grouped according to the negative ion they contain, e.g., bicarbonatebicarbonate
or hydrogen carbonate,
chemical compound containing the bicarbonate radical, -HCO₃. The most familiar of such compounds is sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). See carbonate.
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, chemical compound containing the carbonate radical or ion, CO₃⁻². Most familiar carbonates are salts that are formed by reacting an inorganic base (e.g., a metal hydroxide) with carbonic acid.
..... Click the link for more information. , chloratechlorate
and perchlorate
, salts of chloric acid, HClO₃, and perchloric acid, HClO₄, respectively. Chloric Acid and Its Salts

Chloric acid, HClO₃·7H₂
..... Click the link for more information. , chloridechloride
, chemical compound containing chlorine. Most chlorides are salts that are formed either by direct union of chlorine with a metal or by reaction of hydrochloric acid (a water solution of hydrogen chloride) with a metal, a metal oxide, or an inorganic base.
..... Click the link for more information. , cyanidecyanide
, chemical compound containing the cyano group, -CN. Cyanides are salts or esters of hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid, HCN) formed by replacing the hydrogen with a metal (e.g., sodium or potassium) or a radical (e.g., ammonium or ethyl).
..... Click the link for more information. , fulminatefulminate
, any salt of fulminic acid, HONC, a highly unstable compound known only in solution. The term is most commonly applied to the explosive mercury (II) fulminate, also called fulminate of mercury, Hg(ONC)₂. The pure compound forms white cubic crystals.
..... Click the link for more information. , nitratenitrate,
chemical compound containing the nitrate (NO₃) radical. Nitrates are salts or esters of nitric acid, HNO₃, formed by replacing the hydrogen with a metal (e.g., sodium or potassium) or a radical (e.g., ammonium or ethyl).
..... Click the link for more information. , phosphatephosphate,
salt or ester of phosphoric acid, H₃PO₄. Because phosphoric acid is tribasic (having three replaceable hydrogen atoms), it forms monophosphate, diphosphate, and triphosphate salts in which one, two, or three of the hydrogens of the acid are
..... Click the link for more information. , silicatesilicate,
chemical compound containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, e.g., aluminum, barium, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium, or zirconium. Silicates may be considered chemically as salts of the various silicic acids.
..... Click the link for more information. , sulfatesulfate,
chemical compound containing the sulfate (SO₄) radical. Sulfates are salts or esters of sulfuric acid, H₂SO₄, formed by replacing one or both of the hydrogens with a metal (e.g., sodium) or a radical (e.g., ammonium or ethyl).
..... Click the link for more information. , or sulfidesulfide,
chemical compound containing sulfur and one other element or sulfur and a radical. Sulfides may be salts or esters of hydrogen sulfide, H₂S, or may be formed directly, e.g., by heating a metal with sulfur.
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Preparation of Salts

Salts are also prepared by methods other than neutralization. A metal can combine directly with a nonmetal to form a salt; e.g., sodium metal reacts with chlorine gas to form sodium chloride. A metal may react with a dilute acid to form a salt and release hydrogen gas; e.g., zinc reacts with dilute sulfuric acid to form zinc sulfate and hydrogen. A metal oxide may react with an acid to form a salt and water; e.g., calcium oxide reacts with carbonic acid to form calcium carbonate and water. A base can react with a nonmetallic oxide to form a salt and water; e.g., sodium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide to form sodium carbonate and water. Two salts may react with one another (in solution) to form two new salts; e.g., barium chloride and sodium sulfate react in solution to form barium sulfate (as an insoluble precipitate) and sodium chloride (which remains in solution). A salt may react with an acid to form a different salt and acid; e.g., sodium chloride and sulfuric acid react when heated to form sodium sulfate and release hydrogen chloride gas (which in solution forms hydrochloric acid). A salt undergoes dissociationdissociation,
in chemistry, separation of a substance into atoms or ions. Thermal dissociation occurs at high temperatures. For example, hydrogen molecules (H₂
..... Click the link for more information. when it dissolves in a polar solvent, e.g., water, the extent of dissociation depending both on the salt and the solvent.

Bibliography

See M. Kurlansky, Salt: A World History (2002).

SALT

Abbrev. for Southern African Large Telescope.

Salt

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Much like iron, salt was believed to have supernatural origins and has become an essential part of most religious and magical rituals. The very word "salary" comes from the Latin salarium meaning "salt allowance," showing it to have great worth. The habitual use of salt is connected with the advance from nomadic to agricultural life. The gods were worshiped as the givers of the foods necessary for life; so salt, frequently together with bread, was associated with offerings to the deities. This was especially prevalent among the Greeks and Romans.

Since it is so essential to life—both human and animal—salt symbolically represents life. It is added to baptismal water, to water used in exorcism, and to the holy water used on a Wiccan altar. Some traditions of Witchcraft mark their Circle with salt. Magically, it is considered a great defense against evil. For this reason, people in the Middle Ages believed it to be a tool for preventing witchcraft and for destroying a witch. Even today, in the Ozarks, it is believed that if a woman complains that her food tastes too salty, she may well be a witch. There is an old saying in the region: "The Devil hates salt."

Since salt represents life, to spill salt is a bad omen for it presages spilling blood. In alchemy it represents the principle of body, the female, and earth. On the Wiccan and ceremonial altars it represents the element of earth. In the old British custom of "first-footing" (being the first person of the new year to set foot across another's doorstep), salt is one of the gifts presented by the first-footer to the homeowner.

Salt used to mark the line at the meal table between family or close friends and those who were casual visitors or menials. The former sat at the head of the table, while the latter sat "below the salt"—below where the salt cellar stood on the table.

Salt and incense were both religious and economic necessities of the ancient world. Via Lalaria, as one of the oldest roads in Italy, was used for moving the salt of Ostia to the Sabine country. Herodotus mentions the caravan route connecting the many oases of the Libyan desert as a road for the transportation of salt.

In Wiccan rituals, sea salt is the preferred type, although any regular salt is acceptable. There are various ways of processing sea salt, the traditional and possibly the oldest and purest method being by allowing the wind and sun alone to dry ocean brine that is channeled from the open sea into pristine shallow clay ponds. In this manner, Celtic Brittany farmers produce some of the finest and purest sea salt in the world.

Salt

a mountain range in northern Pakistan, between the valleys of the Indus and Jhelum rivers. The range stretches for a length of approximately 300 km, with elevations to 1,522 m (Mount Sakesar). The Salt Range constitutes a cuesta-like ledge below the southern edge of the Potwar Plateau. It is composed of crystalline rocks overlain with limestones and dolomites. There are large deposits of rock salt at Khewra and Nurpur and other sites. On the slopes there are separate pine, acacia, and olive groves.

Salt

the name of a class of chemical compounds that are crystalline under ordinary conditions and for which an ionic structure is typical. According to the theory of electrolytic dissociation, salts are chemical compounds that in solution dissociate into positively charged ions, or cations (mainly, of metals), and negatively charged ions, or anions. The various types of salts include normal, acid, basic, double, mixed, and complex salts. The most common laboratory method for the preparation of salts is the reactions of acids with bases, as well as reactions of acids with metals and, in many cases (depending on the electromotive forces series), reactions of salts themselves with metals.

A characteristic property of salts is solubility in polar solvents, especially water. In nature, accumulations of salts are formed mainly by sedimentation from aqueous solutions in inland sea basins (Aral Sea, Dead Sea) or in inlets almost cut off from the sea (Kara-Bogaz-Gol), as well as in closed mainland lakes (El’ton, Baskunchak).

Salts were known in antiquity. In addition to their traditional use in foods and medicine, salts came to be used industrially with the development of the chemical, glassmaking, leather, textile, and metallurgical industries. Some salts are used as mineral fertilizers.

REFERENCE

Nekrasov, B. V. Osnovy obshchei khimii, vols. [1–2], 3rd ed. Moscow, 1973.

What does it mean when you dream about salt?

Used as seasoning in food, salt symbolizes flavor or piquancy. As one of the three primary elements of matter in alchemy representing—in contrast to mercury and sulfur—the principle of fixity and solidity, salt symbolizes someone who is steadfast and dependable, “the salt of the earth.”

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[sȯlt] (chemistry) The reaction product when a metal displaces the hydrogen of an acid; for example, H₂SO₄+2NaOH→Na₂SO₄(a salt) + 2H₂O. (engineering) To add an accelerator or retardant to cement. (mining engineering) To introduce extra amounts of a valuable or waste mineral into a sample to be assayed. To artificially enrich, as a mine, usually with fraudulent intent.

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1. a white powder or colourless crystalline solid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and used for seasoning and preserving food 2. preserved in, flooded with, containing, or growing in salt or salty water 3. Chem any of a class of usually crystalline solid compounds that are formed from, or can be regarded as formed from, an acid and a base by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms in the acid molecules by positive ions from the base

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or Treaty

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(1)Symbolic Assembly Language Trainer. Assembly-like languageimplemented in BASIC by Kevin Stock, now at Encore in France.

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(2)Sam And Lincoln Threaded language. A threaded extensiblevariant of BASIC. "SALT", S.D. Fenster et al, BYTE (Jun 1985)p.147.

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(3)A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too muchregularity would be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). Forexample, the Unix crypt(3) manual page mentions that "the saltstring is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096different ways."

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(1) (Speech Application Language Tags) Extensions to HTML, XHTML and XML for voice recognition and synthesized speech and audio output. SALT is designed to support mixed modes including audio, video, text and graphics, depending on the device in the user's hands. For more information, visit the SALT Forum at www.saltforum.org.

(2) (salt) In cryptography, a random number that is added to the encryption key or to a password to protect them from disclosure. See cryptography.

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(dreams)Salt is one of the most abundant chemicals on Earth. Dreaming about it suggests that you may be thinking about or desiring those things that are dependable and, at the same time, exciting (salt = spice of life). If you associate an individual with the salt in your dreams you may be giving that person the attributes that were just mentioned.

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noun seasoning

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noun sailor

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verb add salt to

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adj salty

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phrase rub salt into the wound

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phrase with a grain or pinch of salt

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noun a person engaged in sailing or working on a ship

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phrase salt away: to reserve for the future

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phrase salt away: to place (money) in a bank

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noun a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

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noun white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

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noun negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

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noun the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

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