Salt vs. Phosphate

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

(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.

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

(slang) A sailor also old salt.

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

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

(obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.

(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.

Example: ‘Attic salt’;

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

(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.

Example: ‘Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.’;

(Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.

Example: ‘There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.’;

Salty; salted.

Example: ‘salt beef;’; ‘salt tears’;

Saline.

Example: ‘a salt marsh;’; ‘salt grass’;

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

Example: ‘a salt mine’; ‘The salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.’;

Bitter; sharp; pungent.

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

(transitive) To add salt to.

Example: ‘to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter’;

(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.

Example: ‘The brine begins to salt.’;

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

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

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

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

To include colorful language in.

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

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.

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

Example: ‘Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us.’;

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

A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.

Example: ‘I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts.’;

A sailor; - usually qualified by old.

Example: ‘Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts.’;

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.

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.

Example: ‘Ye are the salt of the earth.’;

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

Marshes flooded by the tide.

Example: ‘His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt.’;

The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

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

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

Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Example: ‘I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.’;

Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.

Example: ‘Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;And yet salt water blinds them not so muchBut they can see a sort of traitors here.’;

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.

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

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

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

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

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

the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth

add salt to

sprinkle as if with salt;

Example: ‘the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps’;

add zest or liveliness to;

Example: ‘She salts her lectures with jokes’;

preserve with salt;

Example: ‘people used to salt meats on ships’;

containing or filled with salt;

Example: ‘salt water’;

of speech that is painful or bitter;

Example: ‘salt scorn’; ‘a salt apology’;

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

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.

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.

A carbonated soft drink sweetened with fruit syrup and with some phosphoric acid.

To treat or coat with a phosphate or with phosphoric acid

A salt of phosphoric acid.

a salt of phosphoric acid

carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid

a salt or ester of phosphoric acid, containing PO₄³⁻ or a related anion or a group such as —OPO(OH)₂.

an effervescent soft drink containing phosphoric acid, soda water, and flavouring.

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative of orthophosphoric acid H3PO4.