Salt (disambiguation)
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Depending on letter case, salt may refer to any of the following:
salt
- In chemistry, a salt is a neutral compound composed of ions.
- In reference to food or taste, salt generally refers to edible or table salt, which is chiefly composed of sodium chloride and used as a flavour enhancer and preservative for food.
- In data encryption, a salt is an initialization vector of a block cipher.
Salt
- Salt is a municipality of over 20,000 people in Gironès comarca, Girona province, Catalonia, Spain.
- Salt is a small and ancient town in Jordan, which may have been the origin for the English word sultana.
- Salt River is the name of a number of rivers in the US.
- Henry Stephens Salt (1851 - 1939), English writer and campaigner for social reforms.
- Henry Salt (1780 - 1827), English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist.
SALT
- The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT I and SALT II, were agreements between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which involved offensive nuclear arsenals during the Cold War
- The Southern African Large Telescope, an optical telescope located in the semi-desert region of the Karoo, South Africa
- Speech Application Language Tags, a standard markup language for creating speech recognition applications on either telephony or multi-modal systems, and an alternative to VoiceXML.
