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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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Gallate :: Gallate (n.) A salt of gallic acid.

Styphnic :: Styphnate (n.) A salt of styphnic acid.

Sulphindigotic :: Sulphinate (n.) A salt of a sulphinic acid.

Mirabilite :: Mirabilite (n.) Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.

Emulsion :: Emulsion (n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process..

Element :: Element (n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury..

Epsomite :: Epsomite (n.) Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

Valerate :: Valerate (n.) A salt of valeric acid.

Powder :: Powder (v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily..

Saline :: Saline (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine..

Solute :: Solute (a.) Soluble; as, a solute salt..

Soap :: Soap (n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not..

Salty :: Salty (a.) Somewhat salt; saltish.

Epsom Salts :: Epsom salts () Alt. of sal.

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Scrabbed Eggs :: Scrabbed eggs () A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper..

Ricinoleate :: Ricinoleate (n.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.

Sorbate :: Sorbate (n.) A salt of sorbic acid.

Osmate :: Osmate (n.) A salt of osmic acid.

Borax :: Borax (n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O..