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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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Sal :: Sal (n.) Salt.

Camphorate :: Camphorate (n.) A salt of camphoric acid.

Tungstate :: Tungstate (n.) A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.

Saleratus :: Saleratus (n.) Aerated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is largely used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingredient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks..

Oleate :: Oleate (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction..

Sulphauric :: Sulphaurate (n.) A salt of sulphauric acid.

Quinine :: Quinine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc..

Caprate :: Caprate (n.) A salt of capric acid.

Tartrate :: Tartrate (n.) A salt of tartaric acid.

Salt :: Salt (n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning..

Polytungstate :: Polytungstate (n.) A salt of polytungstic acid.

Styptic :: Styphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts..

Metavanadate :: Metavanadate (n.) A salt of metavanadic acid.

Junk :: Junk (n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

Sulpharsenate :: Sulphantimonite (n.) A salt of sulphantimonious acid.

Psalterial :: Psalterial (a.) Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

Saltmouth :: Saltmouth (n.) A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts..

Determination :: Determination (n.) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air..

Mesitylenate :: Mesitylenate (n.) A salt of mesitylenic acid.

Sulphion :: Sulphinide (n.) A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates)..