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
[edit]- Salt (chemistry), an ionic compound
- Epsom salt, magnesium sulfate
- Glauber's salt, sodium sulfate
- Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt (table salt)
- Halite (rock 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
Places
[edit]- Salt, Girona, Spain
- Salt, Jordan
- Salt Municipality, a municipality in and around Salt, Jordan
- Salt Rural LLG, Papua New Guinea
- Salt, Staffordshire, England
- Salt, Uttarakhand, a town in Uttarakhand, India
- Salt (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency), the state Assembly constituency centered around the town
- Salt River (disambiguation)
People with the name
[edit]- Salt (rapper) (born Cheryl James, 1966), a hip-hop artist and member of Salt-N-Pepa
- Abu al-Salt, Andalusian-Arab polymath
- Barbara Salt (1904–1975), a British diplomat
- Bernard Salt, an Australian financial writer
- Don Reitz, an American ceramic artist nicknamed "Mr. Salt"
- Edward Salt (1881–1970), a British politician
- George Salt (1903–2003), an English entomologist
- Henry Salt (Egyptologist) (1780–1827), an English artist, traveler, and diplomat
- Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), an English writer and campaigner for social reforms
- Jack Salt (born 1996), New Zealand basketball player
- Jennifer Salt (born 1944), an American actress and screenwriter
- John Salt (1937–2021), an English artist
- John Stevenson Salt (1777–1845), an English banker
- John Salt (bishop), a South African Anglican bishop
- Phil Salt (cricketer) (born 1996), Welsh-born cricketer for Sussex
- Phil Salt (footballer) (born 1979), an English footballer
- Sam Salt (1940–2009), a British admiral
- Thomas Salt (1830–1904), British banker and politician
- Titus Salt (1803–1876), an English textile manufacturer and benefactor
- Waldo Salt (1914–1987), an American screenwriter
- William Salt (1808–1863), an English banker and genealogist
- Salt, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Salt, a character played by Haruka Shimazaki in the series Majisuka Gakuen
- 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
- Heluda Salt, a character in the 2002 Tamora Pierce novel Cold Fire
- Mr. Salt, a character in the Nick Jr. series Blue's Clues
- Mr. Salt, a recurring character in the animated streaming television series Close Enough
- Sally Salt, a character played by Sarah Polley in the 1988 movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Veruca Salt (character), a character in the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Films
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Salt (Roberts novel), a 2000 science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
- Salt (Lovelace novel), a 1997 Trinidadian novel by Earl Lovelace
- Salt: A World History, a non-fiction book by Mark Kurlansky
Music
[edit]Groups
[edit]- Salt (band), a Swedish alternative rock band
- SALT (band), a French-American rock band founded in 2016
- SALT (quartet), a Swedish barbershop quartet
Albums
[edit]- Salt (Angie McMahon album), 2019
- Salt (Forget Cassettes album)
- Salt (Half Moon Run album)
- Salt (Lizz Wright album), 2003
- Salt (Venetian Snares album)
- Salt (Wuthering Heights album)
Songs
[edit]- "Salt" (Ava Max song), 2018
- "Salt" (Oh Land song), 2019
- "Salt", a song by Bad Suns from the album Language & Perspective
- "Salt", a song by Lizz Wright from the album Salt
- "Salt", a song by Madrugada from the album Industrial Silence
- "Salt", a song by Venetian Snares from the album Salt
- "S.A.L.T.", a song by The Orb on the album Orblivion
- "Salts", a song by Sannhet from the album So Numb
Opera
[edit]- "Salt", a mini-opera for alto voice, amplified cello and electronics by Missy Mazzoli from 2012
Computing
[edit]- 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
- Speech Application Language Tags, an XML-based markup language
- Syntactic salt, a type of computer language syntax
Enterprises
[edit]- Salt Mobile, a Swiss mobile provider
- Salt Publishing, a book publisher
- Salts Healthcare Ltd, UK medical manufacturer
- Salts Mill, former textile mill now art gallery etc in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK
Organizations
[edit]- SALT (institution), a non-profit institution in Istanbul, Turkey
- Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS), a non-profit Christian organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, which provides sail training and life lessons
- Salt Grammar School, former name of Titus Salt School, Bradford, England
- Salts F.C., a soccer team in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Socialist Alternative (Australia) (SAlt; c.f. SA for Socialist Alliance), a revolutionary socialist organisation in Australia
- The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth, a sexual abstinence organization
Other uses
[edit]- Salt (Swedish magazine), political magazine published between 1999 and 2002
- Salt (union organizing), a labor union member who gets a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union
- Salt cellar, also known just as "salt", tableware
- SALT Conference, a financial conference hosted by SkyBridge Capital
- Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT), a lecture series
- Skin-associated lymphoid tissue, a component of Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
- SkyBridge Alternatives Conference (SALT), the largest hedge fund conference in the world
- Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), a 10-metre class optical telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory
- Speech and Language Therapy (SALT)
- State and local tax, especially in the context of the state and local tax ("SALT") deduction in United States federal income tax
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, nuclear weapon talks between the USA and USSR, or the resultant treaties:
See also
[edit]- Ionic compound
- Saltvik, a municipality of Åland
- Salter (disambiguation)
- Salting (disambiguation)
- Salty (disambiguation)
- Sault (disambiguation)