Salt vs. Alum

Saltnoun

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

Saltnoun

(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

Saltnoun

(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

Saltnoun

(slang) A sailor also old salt.

Saltnoun

(cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.

Saltnoun

A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

Saltnoun

(obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.

Saltnoun

(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.

Saltnoun

(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.

Saltnoun

(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.

Saltnoun

(Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.

Saltadjective

Salty; salted.

Saltadjective

Saline.

Saltadjective

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

Saltadjective

Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Saltadjective

Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.

Saltverb

(transitive) To add salt to.

Saltverb

(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.

Saltverb

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

Saltverb

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

Saltverb

(mining) To blast metal into as a portion of a mine in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

Saltverb

(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.

Saltverb

To include colorful language in.

Saltverb

(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

Saltnoun

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.

Saltnoun

Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.

Saltnoun

Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.

Saltnoun

A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

Saltnoun

A sailor; - usually qualified by old.

Saltnoun

The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.

Saltnoun

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.

Saltnoun

Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.

Saltnoun

Marshes flooded by the tide.

Saltnoun

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Saltadjective

Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.

Saltadjective

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

Saltadjective

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Saltadjective

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

Saltverb

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

Saltverb

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

Saltverb

To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

Saltnoun

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

Saltnoun

white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

Saltnoun

negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

Saltnoun

the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth

Saltverb

add salt to

Saltverb

sprinkle as if with salt;

Saltverb

add zest or liveliness to;

Saltverb

preserve with salt;

Saltadjective

containing or filled with salt;

Saltadjective

of speech that is painful or bitter;

Saltadjective

one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

Salt

Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater.

Alumnoun

An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K2SO4.Al2(SO4)3.24H2O).

Alumnoun

(chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.

Alumnoun

(US) A graduate of a university or other institution.

Alumverb

(transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Alumnoun

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

Alumverb

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Alumnoun

a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum

Alumnoun

a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum

Alumnoun

a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Alumnoun

a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things)

Alum

An alum () is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double sulfate salt of aluminium with the general formula XAl(SO4)2·12H2O, where X is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium. By itself, often refers to potassium alum, with the formula KAl(SO4)2·12H2O. Other alums are named after the monovalent ion, such as sodium alum and ammonium alum.