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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
  • 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

• 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

• 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

Fictional characters

• 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

• 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 (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

Groups

• Salt (band), a Swedish alternative rock band
• SALT (band), a French-American rock band founded in 2016
• SALT (quartet), a Swedish barbershop quartet

Albums

• 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

• "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

• "Salt", a mini-opera for alto voice, amplified cello and electronics by Missy Mazzoli from 2012

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
• Speech Application Language Tags, an XML-based markup language
• Syntactic salt, a type of computer language syntax

Enterprises

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 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:
  • SALT I of 1972
  • SALT II of 1979

See also

• Ionic compound
• Saltvik, a municipality of Åland
• Salter (disambiguation)
• Salting (disambiguation)
• Salty (disambiguation)
• Sault (disambiguation)

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