Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles..

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Sulphatic :: Sulphate (n.) A salt of sulphuric acid.
Fossil :: Fossil (a.) Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt..
Deflagrable :: Deflagrable (a.) Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt..
Ricinolein :: Ricinolein (n.) The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin..
Saliniform :: Saliniform (a.) Having the form or the qualities of a salt, especially of common salt..
Salify :: Salify (v. t.) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid..
Pyroborate :: Pyroborate (n.) A salt of pyroboric acid.
Oxamic :: Oxamic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia..
Salt :: Salt (n.) A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
Hypophosphate :: Hypophosphate (n.) A salt of hypophosphoric acid.
Antiseptic :: Antiseptic (n.) A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona..
Hoecake :: Hoecake (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe..
Salting :: Salting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sal.
Perchlorate :: Perchlorate (n.) A salt of perchloric acid.
Kainit :: Kainit (n.) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
Hydrosalt :: Hydrosalt (n.) An acid salt.
Psalter :: Psalter (n.) The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
Sulphocyanic :: Sulphocyanate (n.) A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide..
Hyponitrite :: Hyponitrite (n.) A salt of hyponitrous acid.
Rosaniline :: Rosaniline (n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper..
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