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Salting or Salted 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 a bird's tail, a superstition
• Salt marsh
• 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
• Salting (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

See also

• Salt (disambiguation)
• Salty (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages