Salting or Salted may refer to:

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George Salting George Salting (15 August 183512 December 1909) was an Australian-born British art collector. He had inherited considerable wealth from his father; Salting collected paintings, Chinese porcelains, furniture, and many other categories of art and ...

(1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector, who left the Salting Bequest, which included the ** ''Salting Madonna'' (Antonello da Messina), National Gallery, London

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Salting (food) Salting is the preservation of food with dry edible salt.

, the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste *

Salting the earth Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the site of cities razed by conquerers. It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle ...

, the practice of "sowing" salt on cities or property as a symbolic act * Salting a bird's tail, a superstition *

Salt marsh A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is domin ...

Salting out Salting out (also known as salt-induced precipitation, salt fractionation, anti-solvent crystallization, precipitation crystallization, or drowning out) is a purification technique that utilizes the reduced solubility of certain molecules in a s ...

, a method of separating proteins using salt * Salting (initiation ceremony), an early modern English university initiation ceremony * Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a

de-icing Deicing is the process of removing snow, ice or frost from a surface. Anti-icing is the application of chemicals that not only deice but also remain on a surface and continue to delay the reformation of ice for a certain period of time, or prev ...

agent * Figuratively, adding ("sprinkling") a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons **

Salt (cryptography) In cryptography, a salt is random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salts are used to safeguard passwords in storage. Historically, only the output from an invocation of ...

, a method to secure passwords ** Salted bomb, a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity ** Salting (confidence trick), process of adding valuable substances to a core sample, or otherwise scattering valuable resources on a piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer ** Salt, allowing a horse to catch the

nagana Animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana and nagana pest, or sleeping sickness, is a disease of vertebrates. The disease is caused by trypanosomes of several species in the genus ''Trypanosoma'' such as ''Trypanosoma brucei''. '' Trypanosom ...

disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas ** Salting mailing lists, including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse * Salt (union organizing), a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union * ''Salted'' (book), a 2010 cookbook by Mark Bitterman

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