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Salt hydrate thermal energy storage
Salt hydrate thermal energy storage stores heat in water-containing salts, as phase change materials absorbing latent heat on melting or as thermochemical storage via reversible dehydration reactions.
Salt in Chinese history
Salt in Chinese history: state salt production and monopoly from Qi's 685 BCE sea-salt monopoly and the Han 117 BCE salt-and-iron monopolies through Song salt zones, Ming salt certificates, and the 2017 partial liberalization.
Salt lake
A salt lake, also called a saline or brine lake, is a closed-basin lake whose water exceeds about 3 g/L dissolved salt, typically forming in arid basins where evaporation concentrates minerals.
Salt Lake Bees
Salt Lake Bees: Triple-A Pacific Coast League affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels in South Jordan, Utah, playing since 2025 at The Ballpark at America First Square; formerly the Salt Lake Buzz, with the Utah Dirty Sodas alternate identity.
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is the capital and most populous city of Utah, founded in 1847 by Latter-day Saint pioneers led by Brigham Young in the Salt Lake Valley.
Salt Lake City International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport is a commercial airport five miles northwest of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, handling about 28 million passengers in 2025 as a major Delta hub.
Salt Lake City School District
Salt Lake City School District (SLCSD) is the public school district of Salt Lake City, Utah: 35 schools, about 18,470 students, a minority-majority enrollment, an elected board, and a recent history of state audits, leadership turnover, and boundary planning.
Salt Lake City Stars
Salt Lake City Stars (SLC Stars), NBA G League affiliate of the Utah Jazz; relocated from the Boise-based Idaho Stampede in 2016; named for the ABA Utah Stars; coached by Rick Higgins since 2025.
Salt Lake County, Utah
Salt Lake County, Utah: the state's most populous county (1,220,916 est. 2025), seat at Salt Lake City, created 1850 as Great Salt Lake County, mayor-council government since 2000, and Utah's economic hub with 41% of taxable sales.
Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games of 2002
SLOC (Salt Lake Organizing Committee), 1995-2002, staged the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games; first combined Olympic-Paralympic committee, hit by the IOC bribery scandal, led by Mitt Romney, dissolved October 2002 with over $100 million profit.
Salt Lake Tabernacle
The Salt Lake Tabernacle is a domed assembly hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, completed in 1867 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Salt Lake Temple
Salt Lake Temple: flagship temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, announced 1847, dedicated 1893, granite with six spires; closed since 2019 for base-isolation seismic retrofit, reopening with open house April–October 2027.
Salt Mango Tree
Salt Mango Tree (സാൾട്ട് മാംഗോ ട്രീ) is a 2015 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Rajesh Nair, starring Biju Menon and Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli, about a couple seeking their son's school admission; its title comes from the 1988 film Doore Doore Oru Koodu Kootam.
Salt March (नमक सत्याग्रह)
Salt March (नमक सत्याग्रह), or Dandi March: 24-day 1930 protest in which Gandhi and 78 followers walked 240 miles from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, broke the British salt law, and launched the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Salt marsh
A salt marsh is a coastal wetland flooded and drained by tidal salt water, occurring worldwide and serving as nursery habitat for over 75% of fisheries species.
Salt Merchants of Yangzhou
The Salt Merchants of Yangzhou (揚州鹽商) were the government-licensed merchants who held the monopoly on transporting and selling Lianghuai salt from Yangzhou in the Ming dynasty.
Salt Mines of Maras
Salineras de Maras, or Salt Mines of Maras: about 4,500 prehispanic evaporation wells near Cusco, Peru, worked communally by Maras and Pichingoto families since before Inca times, marketed via Marasal S.A.
Salt mining
Salt mining is the extraction of sodium chloride, or halite, from rock salt, underground brines, and solar evaporation, used chiefly for chemicals and highway deicing.
Salt of the Forest
Salt of the Forest (Muối của rừng) is a 1986 short story by Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Huy Thiệp, following an old hunter who rescues the monkey he wounds.
Salt Pay
Salt Pay Co Ltd. is a Cayman Islands fintech holding company, founded in 2019 by Eduardo Pontes, behind SaltPay, a London-operated payments group for small merchants rebranded Teya in 2023.
Salt poisoning
Salt poisoning (salt toxicity) is rare acute hypernatremia from massive short-term salt ingestion, via emetics, caregiver administration, or suicide; about 50% of documented cases were fatal, treated with careful free-water replacement.
Salt pond
Salt pond: a shallow saline pond, natural or levee-enclosed (also called salt pan, saltern), where evaporation concentrates brine for salt harvesting; famous examples include San Francisco Bay's Cargill ponds and Maras, Peru.
Salt print
A salt print, also called a salted paper print, is a photographic positive print on paper, the earliest paper print process, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot around 1839.
Salt Range
Salt Range: hill system in Punjab, Pakistan, named for Neoproterozoic rock salt of the Salt Range Formation; mines at Khewra, Kalabagh, Warcha; Himalayan frontal thrust over a salt décollement.
Salt Riot
The Salt Riot (Соляной бунт) was a popular uprising in Moscow in June 1648 against the salt tax and boyar Boris Morozov, leading to his exile and the Sobornoe Ulozhenie code of 1649.
Salt River Project
Salt River Project is a not-for-profit water and electric utility serving central Arizona since 1903, with more than 1.2 million electric customers in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Salt Security
Salt Security, formerly Secful, Inc., is a Palo Alto, California-based API security company founded by Roey Eliyahu and Michael Nicosia, valued at $1.4 billion in 2022.
Salt spray test
The salt spray test, also called salt fog test, is an accelerated laboratory corrosion test exposing specimens to a salt mist under ISO 9227 or ASTM B117.
Salt Stress
Salt stress: plant abiotic stress from excess soil salts, mainly NaCl, acting via osmotic stress, ion toxicity, and oxidative damage; managed by SOS, NHX, HKT transporters, osmotic adjustment, and breeding.
Salt substitute
Salt substitute: a lower-sodium salt, usually sodium chloride blended with 10–50% potassium chloride (LSSS), promoted by WHO to lower blood pressure; SSaSS trial showed reduced stroke and mortality, but kidney patients risk hyperkalemia.