Salt (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Salt is a dietary mineral, used for flavoring and preservation.
Salt or salts may also refer to:
Chemistry
- Salt (chemistry), an ionic compound resulting from neutralization
- Epsom salt, magnesium sulfate
- Glauber's salt, sodium sulfate
- Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt (table salt)
- Road salt, calcium chloride or sodium chloride used to de-ice roads
- Sea salt, a mixture of salts and minerals, obtained by evaporation of seawater
- Halite (rock salt)
Computing
- Salt (cryptography), random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes a password or passphrase
- Salt (software), a Python-based open source configuration management and remote execution application
- Syntactic salt, a type of computer language syntax
Places
- Salt, Staffordshire, England
- Salt, Jordan
- Salt Municipality, a municipality in and around Salt, Jordan
- Salt, Girona, Spain
- Salt, Uttarakhand, India
- Salt River (disambiguation)
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Charlie Salt, a character played by Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1968 movie Salt and Pepper
- Evelyn Salt, the titular protagonist of the 2010 movie Salt
- Gloria Salt, a character in the 1952 P.G. Wodehouse novel Pigs Have Wings
- Heluda Salt, a character in the 2002 Tamora Pierce novel Cold Fire
- Veruca Salt (character), a character in the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Films
- Salt (1965 film), a Bulgarian short documentary by Eduard Zahariev
- Salt (1985 film), North Korean tragedy film
- Salt (1987 film), an Indian Malayalam film
- Salt (2006 film), a thriller
- Salt (2009 film), a short documentary
- Salt (2010 film), an action film starring Angelina Jolie
Literature
- Salt (novel), by Adam Roberts
- Salt: A World History, a non-fiction book by Mark Kurlansky
Music
- Groups
- Salt (band), a Swedish alternative rock band
- SALT (quartet), a Swedish barbershop quartet
- Albums
- Salt (Forget Cassettes album)
- Salt (Lizz Wright album), 2003
- Salt (Venetian Snares album)
- Salt (Wuthering Heights album)
- Songs
- "S.A.L.T.", a song by The Orb on the album Orblivion
Enterprises and organizations
- Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS)
- Sail and Life Training Society, a Canadian organization
- SALT (institution), a non-profit institution in Istanbul, Turkey
- Salt Grammar School, Bradford, England
- Salt Mobile SA, a Swiss mobile provider
- Salt Publishing, a book publisher
- Salts F.C. (soccer team) Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Salts Healthcare Ltd, UK medical manufacturer
- Socialist Alternative (Australia) is commonly referred to as SAlt (c.f. SA for Socialist Alliance) by non-members
- The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth, a sexual abstinence organization
People
- Salt, female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
- Barbara Salt (1904–1975), British diplomat
- Bernard Salt, Australian financial writer
- Cheryl James ("Salt", born 1966), hip-hop artist, member of Salt-N-Pepa
- Don Reitz, American ceramic artist nicknamed "Mr. Salt"
- Edward William Salt (1881–1970), British politician
- Henry Salt (Egyptologist) (1780–1827), English artist, traveler, and diplomat
- Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), English writer and campaigner for social reforms
- Jennifer Salt (born 1944), American actress and screenwriter
- John Salt (born 1937), English artist
- John Stevenson Salt (1777–1845), English banker
- John William Salt, South African Anglican bishop
- Phil Salt (born 1979), English footballer
- Sam Salt (1940–2009), British admiral
- Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet (1830–1904), British banker and politician
- Titus Salt (1803–1876), English textile manufacturer and benefactor
- Waldo Salt (1914–1987), American screenwriter
- William Salt (1808–1863), English banker and genealogist
Other uses
- Salt (union organizing)
- Salt cellar, also known just as ‘salt’, tableware
- SALT Conference, a financial conference hosted by SkyBridge Capital
- Seminars About Long-term Thinking, a lecture series
- Skin-associated lymphoid tissue, a component of Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
- Southern African Large Telescope
- Speech Application Language Tags, an XML-based markup language
- Speech and Language Therapy
- state and local tax – used in reference to the "SALT deduction" on United States federal income tax
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, nuclear weapon talks between the USA and USSR, or the resultant treaties