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Salsa20
Salsa20 is a stream cipher designed by Daniel J. Bernstein in 2005 and submitted to eSTREAM, using 256-bit keys and 20 rounds for fast software encryption.
Salsette Island (साष्टी)
Salsette Island (साष्टी, Shashti, "sixty-six villages") is the large island north of Bombay on which Mumbai and part of Thane district stand; Kanheri's 109 Buddhist caves, Portuguese and Maratha rule, British annexation 1782.
Salsola
Salsola (saltwort, Russian thistle) is a genus of salt-tolerant Amaranthaceae herbs and shrubs, native from Eurasia to Australia and Africa, with C4 photosynthesis, split by molecular phylogeny into several lineages, and including invasive tumbleweeds.
Salsola tragus
Salsola tragus (Russian thistle, tumbleweed, Kali tragus) is an annual Eurasian amaranth introduced to South Dakota in the 1870s that now infests about 41 million hectares of the western United States as a widespread invasive tumbleweed.
Salsulae Fons
Salsulae Fons (Salsulis) was a Roman road station with a salt spring on the Via Domitia at modern Salses, France, near Narbonne; cited by Pomponius Mela and the Antonine Itinerary, 30 miles from Narbonne, with a castrum and ancient port.
Salt
Salt, also known as table salt or dietary salt, is sodium chloride (NaCl), the mineral halite, used worldwide in food preservation and seasoning, highway de-icing, and chemical manufacturing.
Salt (2010 film)
Salt is a 2010 American action thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper agent.
Salt (chemistry)
Salt, also called an ionic compound, is a chemical compound made of cations and anions, formed when an acid neutralizes a base, as in sodium chloride.
Salt (cryptography)
A salt in cryptography, also called password salting, is a unique random string added to each password before hashing, so identical passwords produce different hashes and attackers must crack each hash individually.
Salt (rapper)
Cheryl "Salt" James (born 1966, Brooklyn) is an American rapper, founding member of Salt-N-Pepa with Sandra "Pepa" Denton; first female rap act to go platinum, 1995 Grammy winner, 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Salt & Straw
Salt & Straw: Portland, Oregon artisanal ice cream chain founded 2011 by cousins Kim and Tyler Malek, known for monthly rotating flavors like olive oil ice cream, 40+ company-owned shops, and a 2026 sale exploration at ~$200M.
Salt and iron administration in the Three Kingdoms
Salt and iron administration in the Three Kingdoms (三国盐铁官营) was the state monopoly over salt and iron under Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu in the early third century.
Salt and Iron Commissioner
The Salt and Iron Commissioner (盐铁使) was a Tang dynasty office, created in 758, that supervised the state salt monopoly and supplied half the empire's revenue.
Salt and iron monopoly and equable marketing
The salt and iron monopoly and equable marketing were state monopolies on salt and iron established under Emperor Wu of Han around 117 BC to fund frontier wars.
Salt and Iron Office
The Salt and Iron Office (盐铁官) was a Western Han office managing the state salt and iron monopolies, a pillar of imperial finance from 119 BC under Sang Hongyang.
Salt and Sanctuary
Salt and Sanctuary: 2D soulslike action RPG by Ska Studios (James and Michelle Silva), released March 2016 on PS4, later PC, Vita, Xbox One, Switch; salt as XP, 20+ bosses, over 1 million sold.
Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood
"Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood" is the House of the Dragon season 3 premiere (June 21, 2026), written by Ryan Condal, directed by Loni Peristere, featuring the Battle of the Gullet and the deaths of Jacaerys and Sharako Lohar.
Salt and vinegar crisps
Salt and vinegar crisps, potato crisps seasoned with salt and vinegar powder or acetic acid seasonings; launched UK-wide in 1967, saltiest standard flavour at 970 mg sodium per 100 g, with supermarket own-brands beating named brands in blind tests.
Salt Bae
Salt Bae is the nickname of Nusret Gökçe (born 1983), Turkish butcher-chef and founder of the Nusr-Et steakhouse chain, famous for a 2017 viral salt-sprinkling video, luxury pricing, and recent restaurant closures.
Salt bread
Salt bread (shio pan/sogeum-ppang) is a yeast roll developed in Japan in 2003 and first sold in 2004, known for its buttery hollow center and popular in South Korea.
Salt bridge
A salt bridge is a connection between the two half-cells of an electrochemical cell, typically a tube or porous plug of inert electrolyte, that lets ions pass between solutions without mixing.
Salt cavern gas storage
Salt cavern gas storage holds natural gas in cavities dissolved from underground rock salt by solution mining, one of three main US storage types and prized for very high deliverability.
Salt Cellar of Francis I
The Salt Cellar of Francis I, known as the Saliera, is an enamelled gold sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini made for Francis I between 1540 and 1543.
Salt City
Salt City (2022) is a Hindi-language SonyLIV family drama web series, 7 episodes, directed by Rishabh Anupam Sahay, starring Piyush Mishra and Divyendu Sharma as the Lucknow-to-Mumbai Bajpai family.
Salt dome
A salt dome, also called a salt diapir, is a mass of rock salt that rises buoyantly from a buried salt bed into overlying sediments.
Salt effect
The salt effect is the change in a chemical reaction's rate or equilibrium in solution caused by adding an electrolyte that takes no part in the reaction.
Salt evaporation pond
Salt evaporation pond, also called saltern or solar pond: shallow diked basins where seawater or brine evaporates to crystallize salt, concentrate lithium, or dispose of wastewater; salinity staged through pond chains with fractional crystallization.
Salt Fat Acid Heat
Salt Fat Acid Heat is a 2018 four-part Netflix docuseries hosted by chef Samin Nosrat, directed by Caroline Suh, adapting her James Beard Award-winning cookbook; episodes cover fat (Italy), salt (Japan), acid (Yucatán), and heat (Berkeley).
Salt Flow Surf School
Salt Flow Surf School (Salt Flow ≋ Escola de Surf & SUP), founded 2015 by Daniel, Pedro, and Jorge, is a Portuguese Surf Federation-recognized surf and SUP school at Praia de Ofir, Fão, Esposende, Braga District, offering 2-hour lessons, the Salt Soul surf week from 320 EUR, kids' camps, and adaptive surfing.
Salt hydrate phase-change materials
Salt hydrate phase-change materials are inorganic compounds of the form AB·nH₂O that store large amounts of heat as latent heat while melting and solidifying near a fixed temperature.