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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 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
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 SA, 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:
 
See also
- Ionic compound
 - Saltvik, a municipality of Åland
 - Salter (disambiguation)
 - Salting (disambiguation)
 - Salty (disambiguation)
 - Sault (disambiguation)
 
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