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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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Vell :: Vell (n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag..

Succinite :: Succinimide (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, C2H4.(CO)2.NH, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. It is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. See Imido acid, under Imido..

Ossify :: Ossify (v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts..

Uranin :: Uranin (n.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein..

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

Saccharonic :: Saccharonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts..

Xanthinine :: Xanthinine (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance related to urea and uric acid, produced as a white powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine..

Pretzel :: Pretzel (n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside..

Basic :: Basic (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt..

Marinate :: Marinate (v. t.) To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade..

Ferrate :: Ferrate (n.) A salt of ferric acid.

Basaltoid :: Basaltoid (a.) Formed like basalt; basaltiform.

Isosulphocyanate :: Isosulphocyanate (n.) A salt of isosulphocyanic acid.

Columbate :: Columbate (n.) A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.

Decrepitate :: Decrepitate (v. i.) To crackle, as salt in roasting..

Phthalimide :: Phthalimide (n.) An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido..

Acetate :: Acetate (n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash..

Hypophosphite :: Hypophosphite (n.) A salt of hypophosphorous acid.

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

Misalter :: Misalter (v. t.) To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse..