salt
Salt ( idg. * Sal-, actually the dirty gray ) denotes:
- Salts , chemical compounds made up of ions in crystal lattices
- Table salt ( table salt), the salt used for human consumption
- Curing salt for preserving meat, fish and sausage products
- Sodium chloride , chemical substance, main component of table salt
- Mineral salts , term for inorganic nutrients and also salts that are important for nutrition
- Halite , the mineral made from sodium chloride
- Rock salt , the sedimentary rock that consists almost entirely of halite
- De-icing salt (road salt), which is used to melt ice and snow and consists essentially of sodium chloride
- Sea salt , table salt obtained from sea water
- Smelling salts to stimulate dizziness and fainting spells
- Himalayan salt, a trade name for pink rock salt
- Regenerating salt , also known as dishwasher salt
- SALZ , an Austrian literary magazine
- Salt (heraldry) , a coat of arms figure in heraldry
Salt is the name of the following geographical objects:
- Salt (river) , brook in Vogelsberg in Hesse
- Salz (Westerwald) , municipality in the Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Salz (Lower Franconia) , municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria, Germany
- Salt (Freiensteinau) , district of the municipality Freiensteinau in the Vogelsbergkreis, Hesse, Germany
Salt is the family name of the following people:
- Abraham Salz (* around 1866, † around 1942), Galician Zionist, lawyer and leader of the Chowewe Zion
- Arthur Salz (1881–1963), German social and economic scientist
- Dirk Salz (* 1962), German painter
- Georges Salz (1878–1949), Swiss author and publisher
- Hans Salz (1905–1972), German athlete and ENT doctor
- Manuel Salz (* 1985), German football player (goalkeeper)
- Sam Salz (1894–1981), art dealer, art collector and patron
See also:
Wiktionary: Salt - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Education community SALZ (social, work, life & future), PDL-related foundation
- Salt
- Salts (disambiguation)
- Sal , Salii ( Latin for salt )
- Salt spray
- Salzstraße (disambiguation)
- Big salts