treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
salt saltiness salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
SALT I | the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SALT II | the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
low-sodium diet low-salt diet salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt |
salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
salt table salt common salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
celery salt | ground celery seed and salt |
garlic salt | ground dried garlic and salt |
onion salt | ground dried onion and salt |
seasoned salt | combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate |
sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
mineral water | water naturally or artificially impregnated with mineral salts or gasses, often effervescent, often used therapeutically |
mineral kingdom | all inorganic objects, contrasts with animal and plant kingdoms |
Salt Lake City capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Dasht-e-Kavir Kavir Desert Great Salt Desert | a salt desert in north central Iran |
Great Salt Lake | a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
salt lick lick | a salt deposit that animals regularly lick |
salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
vein mineral vein | a layer of ore between layers of rock |
mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer gob sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
salter salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |
salt rush Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
annual salt-marsh aster | a variety of aster |
perennial salt marsh aster | a variety of aster |
salt reed grass Spartina cynosuroides | tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows |
salt marsh mallow Kosteletzya virginica | subshrub of southeastern United States to New York |
salt tree Halimodendron halodendron Halimodendron argenteum | spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms |
mineral resources | natural resources in the form of minerals |
mineral extraction mineral processing mineral dressing ore processing ore dressing beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |
salt depletion | loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance |
mineral deficiency | lack of a mineral micronutrient that is essential for normal nutrition or metabolism |
dibasic salt | a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule |
mineral | solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition |
ader wax earth wax mineral wax ozokerite ozocerite | a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum, some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles |
asphalt mineral pitch | a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation, consists mainly of hydrocarbons |
sodium chloride common salt | a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl) |
halite rock salt | naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride |
maltha mineral tar | a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt |
mineral wool rock wool | a light fibrous material used as an insulator |
mineral oil | a distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener) |
petrolatum petroleum jelly mineral jelly | a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum, used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication |
Rochelle salt Rochelle salts potassium sodium tartrate | a double salt used in Seidlitz powder, acts as a cathartic |
salt | a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |