# Salting

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**Salting** or **Salted** may refer to:

- [Salting (food)](/source/Salting_(food)), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
- [Salting the earth](/source/Salting_the_earth), the practice of "sowing" salt on cities or property as a symbolic act
- [Salting (union organizing)](/source/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
- [Salting (initiation ceremony)](/source/Salting_(initiation_ceremony)), an early modern English university initiation ceremony
- [Salting roads](/source/Road_salt), the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a [de-icing](/source/De-icing) agent
- [Salting a bird's tail](/source/Salting_a_bird's_tail), a superstition
- [Salting out](/source/Salting_out), a method of separating proteins using salt
- Figuratively, adding ("sprinkling") a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons - [Salt (cryptography)](/source/Salt_(cryptography)), a method to secure passwords - [Salted bomb](/source/Salted_bomb), a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity - [Salting (confidence trick)](/source/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 - [Salting mailing lists](/source/Fictitious_entry#Salt), including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse
- A "Salting Carpet" is a type of [Persian carpet](/source/Persian_carpet) from the [16th century](/source/16th_century) named after "The Salting Carpet" in the collection of the [Victoria & Albert Museum](/source/Victoria_%26_Albert_Museum) (T.402-1910)
- [Salt marsh](/source/Salt_marsh)
- [*Salted* (book)](/source/Salted_(book)), a 2010 cookbook by Mark Bitterman

## People

- [George Salting](/source/George_Salting) (1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector, who left the Salting Bequest, which included the - [*Salting Madonna* (Antonello da Messina)](/source/Salting_Madonna_(Antonello_da_Messina)), National Gallery, London

## See also

- [Salt (disambiguation)](/source/Salt_(disambiguation))
- [Salty (disambiguation)](/source/Salty_(disambiguation))

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