Salting

Salting or Salted may refer to:

People

Other

  • Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
  • Salting the earth, the practice of "sowing" salt on cities or property as a symbolic act
  • Salting a bird's tail, a superstition
  • Salt marsh
  • Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
  • Salting (initiation ceremony), an early modern English university initiation ceremony
  • Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icing agent
  • Figuratively, adding ("sprinkling") a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons
    • Salt (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
    • Salted bomb, a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity
    • Salting (confidence trick), process of adding valuable substances to a core sample, or otherwise scattering valuable resources on a piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer
    • Salt, allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas
    • Salting mailing lists, including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse
  • Salt (union organizing), a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union
  • Salted (book), a 2010 cookbook by Mark Bitterman

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