Salting

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Salting may refer to:

People

George Salting (1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector, who left the Salting Bequest, which included the
- Salting Madonna (Antonello da Messina), National Gallery, London

Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
Salting the earth, the practice of 'sowing' salt on cities or property as a symbolic act
Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
Salting (initiation ceremony), an early modern English university initiation ceremony
Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icing agent

Figuratively, adding ('sprinkling') a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons
- Salt (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
- Salted bomb, a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity
- Salting (confidence trick), process of adding valuable substances to a core sample, or otherwise scattering valuable resources on a piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer
- Salt, allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas
- Salting mailing lists, including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse
Salt (union organizing), a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union