Salting

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Salting may refer to:

• Literally, adding salt to something:
  • Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
  • Salting the earth, the practice of 'sowing' salt on cities or property as a symbolic act
  • Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
  • The application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icer

• Figuratively, adding ('sprinkling') a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons:
  • Salting (initiation ceremony), an early modern English university initiation ceremony
  • Salting (cryptography), 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
  • Allowing a horse to catch the nagana 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

See also

• Salt (disambiguation)

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