salts

n. substances produced from the reaction between acids and bases (Chemistry)

v. add salt, season with salt; preserve in salt; scatter salt; spice up, make lively; fraudulently place expensive minerals within a mine to make the mine appear valuable

n. sodium chloride, common crystalline mineral, table salt; element that provides zest or liveliness; experienced sailor; element that makes an expression poignant or caustic

This article is about the term salt as referred to in chemistry. For the everyday meaning, see salt or its main ingredient, sodium chloride. For other meanings of the word salt, see salt (disambiguation). A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralization reaction of acids and bases. Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations  (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge). These component ions can be inorganic  such as chloride (Cl−), as well as organic such as acetate (CH3COO−) and monoatomic ions such as fluoride (F−), as well as polyatomic ions such as sulfate (SO42−).
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Noun
1. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
(hypernym) compound, chemical compound
(hyponym) acetate, ethanoate
2. white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
(synonym) table salt, common salt
(hypernym) flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning
3. the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth
(synonym) saltiness, salinity
(hypernym) taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
Verb
1. add salt to
(hypernym) season, flavor, flavour
(derivation) saltiness, salinity
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
2. sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"
(hypernym) sprinkle, splash, splosh
3. add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"
(hypernym) spice, spice up
4. preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"
(hypernym) preserve, keep
(derivation) saltiness, salinity
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
Adjective
1. containing or filled with salt; "salt water"
(antonym) fresh
(similar) brackish, briny
(see-also) tasteful
2. of speech that is painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
(similar) sharp
3. one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water
(synonym) salty
(similar) tasteful

n. SALT, SALT talks, strategic arms limitation talks, series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union for the purpose of limiting strategic nuclear arms (began in 1969)

1. Symbolic Assembly Language Trainer. Assembly-like language implemented in BASIC by Kevin Stock, now at Encore in France.
2. Sam And Lincoln Threaded language. A threaded extensible variant of BASIC. "SALT", S.D. Fenster et al, BYTE (Jun 1985) p.147.
[Jargon File]

A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3) manual page mentions that "the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways."