Salt is a dietary mineral, used for flavoring and preservation.

Salt or salts may also refer to:

Chemistry

  • Salt (chemistry), an ionic compound
  • Epsom salt, magnesium sulfate
  • Glauber's salt, sodium sulfate
  • Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt (table salt)
  • Halite (rock salt)
  • Road salt, calcium chloride or sodium chloride used to de-ice roads
  • Sea salt, a mixture of salts and minerals, obtained by evaporation of seawater

Places

  • Salt, Jordan
  • Salt Municipality, a municipality in and around Salt, Jordan
  • Salt Rural LLG, Papua New Guinea
  • Salt, Spain, a municipality in Catalonia
  • Salt, Staffordshire, England
  • Salt, Uttarakhand, a town in Uttarakhand, India
  • Salt (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency), the state Assembly constituency centered around the town
  • Salt River (disambiguation)

People with the name

  • Salt (surname)
  • Salt (rapper) (born Cheryl James, 1966), a hip-hop artist and member of Salt-N-Pepa
  • Abu al-Salt, Andalusian-Arab polymath
  • Don Reitz, an American ceramic artist nicknamed "Mr. Salt"
  • Salt, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Salt, a character played by Haruka Shimazaki in the series Majisuka Gakuen
  • Charlie Salt, a character played by Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1968 movie Salt and Pepper
  • Evelyn Salt, the titular protagonist of the 2010 movie Salt
  • Heluda Salt, a character in the 2002 Tamora Pierce novel Cold Fire
  • Mr. Salt, a character in the Nick Jr. series Blue's Clues
  • Mr. Salt, a recurring character in the animated streaming television series Close Enough
  • Sally Salt, a character played by Sarah Polley in the 1988 movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • Veruca Salt (character), a character in the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Films

  • Salt (1965 film), a Bulgarian short documentary by Eduard Zahariev
  • Salt (1985 film), North Korean tragedy film
  • Salt (1987 film), an Indian Malayalam film
  • Salt (2006 film), a thriller
  • Salt (2009 film), a short documentary
  • Salt (2010 film), an action film starring Angelina Jolie

Literature

  • Salt (Roberts novel), a 2000 science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
  • Salt (Lovelace novel), a 1997 Trinidadian novel by Earl Lovelace
  • Salt: A World History, a non-fiction book by Mark Kurlansky

Music

Groups

  • Salt (Swedish band), a Swedish alternative rock band
  • Salt (French-American band), a French-American rock band founded in 2016
  • SALT (quartet), a Swedish barbershop quartet

Albums

  • Salt (Angie McMahon album), 2019
  • Salt (Arto Lindsay album), 2004
  • Salt (Forget Cassettes album)
  • Salt (Half Moon Run album)
  • Salt (Lizz Wright album), 2003
  • Salt (Venetian Snares album)
  • Salt (Wuthering Heights album)
  • Salt (Blackbear EP)

Songs

  • "Salt" (Ava Max song), 2018
  • "Salt" (Oh Land song), 2019
  • "Salt", a song by Bad Suns from the album Language & Perspective
  • "Salt", a song by Lizz Wright from the album Salt
  • "Salt", a song by Madrugada from the album Industrial Silence
  • "Salt", a song by Tinashe from the album Joyride
  • "Salt", a song by Venetian Snares from the album Salt
  • "S.A.L.T.", a song by The Orb on the album Orblivion
  • "Salts", a song by Sannhet from the album So Numb

Opera

  • "Salt", a mini-opera for alto voice, amplified cello and electronics by Missy Mazzoli from 2012

Computing

  • Salt (cryptography), random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes a password or passphrase
  • Salt (software), a Python-based open source configuration management and remote execution application
  • Speech Application Language Tags, an XML-based markup language
  • Syntactic salt, a type of computer language syntax

Enterprises

  • Salt Mobile, a Swiss mobile provider
  • Salt Publishing, a book publisher
  • Salts Healthcare, UK medical manufacturer
  • Salts Mill, former textile mill now art gallery etc in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Salt (food truck), a food truck in Dubai

Organizations

  • SALT (institution), a non-profit institution in Istanbul, Turkey
  • Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS), a non-profit Christian organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, which provides sail training and life lessons
  • Salt Grammar School, former name of Titus Salt School, Bradford, England
  • Salts F.C., a soccer team in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Socialist Alternative (Australia) (SAlt; c.f. SA for Socialist Alliance), a revolutionary socialist organisation in Australia
  • Solidarity Across Land Trades, a UK trade union representing land-workers
  • The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth, a sexual abstinence organization

Other uses

  • Salt (Swedish magazine), political magazine published between 1999 and 2002
  • Salt (union organizing), a labor union member who gets a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union
  • Salt cellar, also known just as "salt", tableware
  • SALT Conference, a financial conference hosted by SkyBridge Capital
  • Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT), a lecture series
  • Skin-associated lymphoid tissue, a component of Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
  • SkyBridge Alternatives Conference (SALT), the largest hedge fund conference in the world
  • Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), a 10-metre class optical telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory
  • Speech and Language Therapy (SALT)
  • State and local tax, especially in the context of the state and local tax ("SALT") deduction in United States federal income tax
  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, nuclear weapon talks between the USA and USSR, or the resultant treaties:
  • SALT I of 1972
  • SALT II of 1979

See also

  • Ionic compound
  • Saltvik, a municipality of Åland
  • Salter (disambiguation)
  • Salting (disambiguation)
  • Salty (disambiguation)
  • Sault (disambiguation)