Definition of salt

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Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt..

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Vanadite :: Vanadite (n.) A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite..
Subsalt :: Subsaline (a.) Moderately saline or salt.
Laurate :: Laurate (n.) A salt of lauric acid.
Xantho- :: Xantho- () A combining form from Gr. xanqo`s yellow; as in xanthocobaltic salts. Used also adjectively in chemistry.
Sea Dog :: Sea dog () An old sailor; a salt.
Sulphonium :: Sulphonic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a sulphone; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of acids (regarded as acid ethereal salts of sulphurous acid) obtained by the oxidation of the mercaptans, or by treating sulphuric acid with certain aromatic bases (as benzene); as, phenyl sulphonic acid, C6H5.SO2.OH, a stable colorless crystalline substance..
Kakaralli :: Kakaralli (n.) A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle..
Sea Pool :: Sea pool () A pool of salt water.
Basic :: Basic (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Rhodanic :: Rhodanic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts..
Pyrophosphoric :: Pyrophosphoric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, H4P2O7, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. Its salts are obtained by heating the phosphates..
Bitartrate :: Bitartrate (n.) A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar..
Phenolate :: Phenolate (n.) A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
Urate :: Urate (n.) A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate..
Sauter :: Sauter (n.) Psalter.
Humate :: Humate (n.) A salt of humic acid.
Hydrazine :: Hydrazine (n.) Any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, resembling the amines and produced by the reduction of certain nitroso and diazo compounds; as, methyl hydrazine, phenyl hydrazine, etc. They are derivatives of hydrazine proper, H2N.NH2, which is a doubled amido group, recently (1887) isolated as a stable, colorless gas, with a peculiar, irritating odor. As a base it forms distinct salts. Called also diamide, amidogen, (or more properly diamidogen), etc..
Ethereal :: Ethereal (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts..
Persulphocyanate :: Persulphocyanate (n.) A salt of persulphocyanic acid.
Salting :: Salting (n.) A salt marsh.
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