# Salt (disambiguation)

Salt is a dietary mineral, used for flavoring and preservation.
Salt or salts may also refer to:

## Chemistry

* Salt (chemistry), an ionic compound
** Epsom salt, magnesium sulfate
** Glauber's salt, sodium sulfate
** Sodium chloride, the main ingredient in edible salt (table salt)
* Halite (rock salt)
* Road salt, calcium chloride or sodium chloride used to de-ice roads
* Sea salt, a mixture of salts and minerals, obtained by evaporation of seawater

## Places

* Salt, Jordan
** Salt Municipality, a municipality in and around Salt, Jordan
* Salt Rural LLG, Papua New Guinea
* Salt, Spain, a municipality in Catalonia
* Salt, Staffordshire, England
* Salt, Uttarakhand, a town in Uttarakhand, India
** Salt (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency), the state Assembly constituency centered around the town
* Salt River (disambiguation)

## People with the name

* Salt (rapper) (born Cheryl James, 1966), a hip-hop artist and member of Salt-N-Pepa
* Abu al-Salt, Andalusian-Arab polymath
* Barbara Salt (1904–1975), a British diplomat
* Bernard Salt, an Australian financial writer
* Don Reitz, an American ceramic artist nicknamed "Mr. Salt"
* Edward Salt (1881–1970), a British politician
* George Salt (1903–2003), an English entomologist
* Henry Salt (Egyptologist) (1780–1827), an English artist, traveler, and diplomat
* Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), an English writer and campaigner for social reforms
* Jack Salt (born 1996), New Zealand basketball player
* Jennifer Salt (born 1944), an American actress and screenwriter
* John Salt (1937–2021), an English artist
* John Stevenson Salt (1777–1845), an English banker
* John Salt (bishop), a South African Anglican bishop
* Phil Salt (cricketer) (born 1996), Welsh-born cricketer for Sussex
* Phil Salt (footballer) (born 1979), an English footballer
* Sam Salt (1940–2009), a British admiral
* Thomas Salt (1830–1904), British banker and politician
* Titus Salt (1803–1876), an English textile manufacturer and benefactor
* Waldo Salt (1914–1987), an American screenwriter
* William Salt (1808–1863), an English banker and genealogist
* Salt, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Salt, a character played by Haruka Shimazaki in the series Majisuka Gakuen
* Charlie Salt, a character played by Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1968 movie Salt and Pepper
* Evelyn Salt, the titular protagonist of the 2010 movie Salt
* Heluda Salt, a character in the 2002 Tamora Pierce novel Cold Fire
* Mr. Salt, a character in the Nick Jr. series Blue's Clues
* Mr. Salt, a recurring character in the animated streaming television series Close Enough
* Sally Salt, a character played by Sarah Polley in the 1988 movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
* Veruca Salt (character), a character in the 1964 Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

### Films

* Salt (1965 film), a Bulgarian short documentary by Eduard Zahariev
* Salt (1985 film), North Korean tragedy film
* Salt (1987 film), an Indian Malayalam film
* Salt (2006 film), a thriller
* Salt (2009 film), a short documentary
* Salt (2010 film), an action film starring Angelina Jolie

### Literature

* Salt (Roberts novel), a 2000 science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
* Salt (Lovelace novel), a 1997 Trinidadian novel by Earl Lovelace
* Salt: A World History, a non-fiction book by Mark Kurlansky

### Music
#### Groups

* Salt (band), a Swedish alternative rock band
* SALT (band), a French-American rock band founded in 2016
* SALT (quartet), a Swedish barbershop quartet

#### Albums

* Salt (Angie McMahon album), 2019
* Salt (Forget Cassettes album)
* Salt (Half Moon Run album)
* Salt (Lizz Wright album), 2003
* Salt (Venetian Snares album)
* Salt (Wuthering Heights album)
* Salt (Blackbear EP)

#### Songs

* "Salt" (Ava Max song), 2018
* "Salt" (Oh Land song), 2019
* "Salt", a song by Bad Suns from the album Language & Perspective
* "Salt", a song by Lizz Wright from the album Salt
* "Salt", a song by Madrugada from the album Industrial Silence
* "Salt", a song by Tinashe from the album Joyride
* "Salt", a song by Venetian Snares from the album Salt
* "S.A.L.T.", a song by The Orb on the album Orblivion
* "Salts", a song by Sannhet from the album So Numb

#### Opera

* "Salt", a mini-opera for alto voice, amplified cello and electronics by Missy Mazzoli from 2012

## Computing

* Salt (cryptography), random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes a password or passphrase
* Salt (software), a Python-based open source configuration management and remote execution application
* Speech Application Language Tags, an XML-based markup language
* Syntactic salt, a type of computer language syntax

## Enterprises

* Salt Mobile, a Swiss mobile provider
* Salt Publishing, a book publisher
* Salts Healthcare Ltd, UK medical manufacturer
* Salts Mill, former textile mill now art gallery etc in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK

## Organizations

* SALT (institution), a non-profit institution in Istanbul, Turkey
* Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS), a non-profit Christian organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, which provides sail training and life lessons
* Salt Grammar School, former name of Titus Salt School, Bradford, England
* Salts F.C., a soccer team in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England, UK
* Socialist Alternative (Australia) (SAlt; c.f. SA for Socialist Alliance), a revolutionary socialist organisation in Australia
* Solidarity Across Land Trades, a UK trade union representing land-workers
* The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth, a sexual abstinence organization

## Other uses

* Salt (Swedish magazine), political magazine published between 1999 and 2002
* Salt (union organizing), a labor union member who gets a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union
* Salt cellar, also known just as "salt", tableware
* SALT Conference, a financial conference hosted by SkyBridge Capital
* Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT), a lecture series
* Skin-associated lymphoid tissue, a component of Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
* SkyBridge Alternatives Conference (SALT), the largest hedge fund conference in the world
* Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), a 10-metre class optical telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory
* Speech and Language Therapy (SALT)
* State and local tax, especially in the context of the state and local tax ("SALT") deduction in United States federal income tax
* Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, nuclear weapon talks between the USA and USSR, or the resultant treaties:
** SALT I of 1972
** SALT II of 1979