Salting

Salting may refer to:

People

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

Other

• 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
• 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 agent

• Figuratively, adding ('sprinkling') a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons
  • Salt (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
  • Salt, 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)
• Salty (disambiguation)