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Salt is an edible mineral used as a flavor enhancer and preservative for food, but may also refer to:
Chemistry
- Salt (chemistry), a neutral compound composed of ions.
- Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt
- Sea salt, is a less refined version containing other minerals.
Arts and entertainment
- Salt (novel), a book by Adam Roberts published in 2000
- Salt of the Earth, a 1954 U.S. film by Herbert J. Biberman
- Salt (Venetian Snares album), a 12" released in 2000 by breakcore artist Venetian Snares
- Salt (band), an indie rock band from Sweden
- Salt (Forget Cassettes album), a 2006 album released by Forget Cassettes
- "S.A.L.T.", a song on the 1997 album Orblivion by The Orb
- Salt: A World History, a 2003 non-fiction book detailing the historic importance of the mineral salt by Mark Kurlansky
- Salt Publishing, UK publisher focussing on poetry, biography, literary criticism and text books
Locations and places
- Salt Grammar School , a mathematics and computing college in Bradford, England
- Salt River, the name of a number of rivers in the U.S.
- Salt Lake City, Utah, the capital city of the U.S. state of Utah
- Salt, Jordan, a provincial town in Western Jordan
- Salt, Girona, a municipality in Catalonia, Spain
- Salt, Staffordshire, a village in England
People
- 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
- Jennifer Salt (1944), American actress and screenwriter
- Cheryl "Salt" James, an entrepreneur and hip-hop icon
Fictional
- Veruca Salt, a character from the Roald Dahl novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Mr. Salt (Mr. Henry Salt), Veruca Salt's father
Acronym
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
- S.A.L.T.S., Sail and Life Training Society, based in Victoria, British Columbia
- Seminars About Long-term Thinking, monthly seminars held by The Long Now Foundation in the San Francisco Bay area
- SALT, a Skin-associated lymphoid tissue that is a component of MALT
- Society for Applied Learning Technology, a group for professionals who work in the field of instructional technology
Other
- Salt (cryptography), an initialization vector of a block cipher or hash
- Syntactic salt, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad computer code
See also
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