Salt (disambiguation)

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In Wikipedia, "salt" may refer to protection of deleted pages.

In chemistry, salt is a neutral compound composed of ions.

The word salt may also refer to:

• Edible salt, used as a flavour enhancer and preservative for food, of which
  • Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt
  • Sea salt, is a less refined version containing other minerals.
• 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

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, a 12" released in 2000 by breakcore artist Venetian Snares
• Salt, a book by Adam Roberts published in 2000
• Salt, a town in Spain
• Salt (Forget Cassettes album), a 2006 album released by Nashville-based Forget Cassettes.

The acronym SALT may refer to:

• 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

[edit] See also

• Salt-glazed