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Salt tax and Salt Act
The salt tax and Salt Act (नमक कर) was the British Indian government monopoly on salt manufacture and sale, consolidated in the 1882 Salt Act, targeted by Gandhi's Salt March of 1930, and abolished in 1947.
Salt tax in India
The salt tax in India was a British colonial levy on salt, begun in 1765 under Robert Clive and made a Company monopoly by Warren Hastings in 1772.
Salt tectonics
Salt tectonics is the study of deformation of rock involving salt or other evaporites, which flow because they are weaker and less dense than surrounding sediments.
Salt Transport Commission
The Salt Transport Commission (鹽運司) was the Yuan dynasty's regional agency for the state salt monopoly, supervising salt production, selling licenses to merchants, and remitting salt tax to the central government.
Salt Typhoon
Salt Typhoon (aliases RedMike, GhostEmperor, UNC5807) is a Chinese MSS-linked cyber-espionage group active since 2019 that breached U.S. and global telecom providers, stealing call records and officials' communications.
Salt weathering
Salt weathering is the physical breakdown of rock, stone, and masonry by soluble salts, through crystallization, hydration, and thermal expansion, damaging deserts, coasts, monuments, and roads.
Salt-assisted synthesis
Salt-assisted synthesis is a materials chemistry method in which inorganic salts act as templates, fluxes, or promoters, controlling the morphology and porosity of carbons, oxides, and two-dimensional materials.
Salt-dependent enzyme folding in halophilic archaea
Salt-dependent enzyme folding is the requirement of enzymes from extremely halophilic archaea for molar salt, usually KCl, to fold and stay folded; without it, many proteins unfold.
Salt-en-Donzy
Salt-en-Donzy is a commune in the Loire department of central France, near Feurs, with about 540 inhabitants, known for its Romanesque church and medieval Donzy castle site.
Salt-in strategy
The salt-in strategy is an osmoadaptation used by haloarchaea, and convergently by the bacterium Salinibacter ruber, which accumulate molar intracellular KCl instead of organic solutes.
Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa, the American hip hop duo of Cheryl "Salt" James and Sandra "Pepa" Denton with DJ Spinderella, formed in New York City in 1985; first female rap act to go gold and platinum, known for "Push It", "Shoop", and the 1995 Grammy-winning "None of Your Business".
Salta (city)
Salta, capital of Salta Province in northwestern Argentina, founded 16 April 1582 as San Felipe de Lerma; colonial city in the Lerma Valley at about 1,150 m altitude, 2022 agglomeration population 671,015, major tourism center.
Salta (game)
Salta is an 1899 abstract board game by German musician Konrad Büttgenbach, derived from Halma: two players race 15 marked suns, moons, and stars across a 10×10 board into mirrored goal squares, with compulsory non-capturing jumps and a 120-move scoring rule.
Salta Province
Salta is a province of northwestern Argentina with its capital at the city of Salta, home to 1,441,351 people in 2022 and bordering Chile, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Saltaire
Saltaire, West Yorkshire: Victorian model industrial village built 1851–1876 by Sir Titus Salt around Salts Mill (opened 1853), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 under criteria (ii) and (iv), now an arts and heritage destination with David Hockney works.
Saltation (geology)
Saltation is the transport of sediment particles by wind or water in short hops or skips, one of the three principal modes of wind sediment transport.
Saltator
Saltator, a genus of stout-billed Neotropical songbirds from Mexico to Argentina, formerly in Cardinalidae, now classified in the tanager family Thraupidae; partly folivorous frugivores, with "Saltator" rufiventris excluded as a true tanager.
Saltburn (film)
Saltburn is Emerald Fennell's 2023 black comedy thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi, set at Oxford and a country estate in 2006-07, filmed at Drayton House, and divisive over its class satire.
Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Saltburn-by-the-Sea: Victorian seaside resort in North Yorkshire, England, founded by Henry Pease in 1861, known for its 1869 pier and the 1884 water-balanced cliff lift, Britain's oldest.
Salted hash password storage
Salted hash password storage is the practice of hashing passwords with a unique random salt using deliberately slow functions like Argon2id, recommended by NIST and OWASP over plaintext or encryption.
Salter–Harris fracture
Salter–Harris fracture: growth plate (physeal) fracture in children, classified into five types by Salter and Harris in 1963; type II is most common (about 75%), and these injuries make up 15–18% of pediatric fractures.
Salter's duck
Salter's duck, also called the nodding duck or Edinburgh duck, is a wave energy converter invented by Stephen Salter at Edinburgh in 1974, never tested at sea after a disputed 1982 cost review.
Saltillo, Coahuila
Saltillo, capital of Coahuila de Zaragoza in northeastern Mexico, founded 1577 by Alberto del Canto; automotive manufacturing hub (GM, Nemak), 879,958 residents in 2020, major vehicle-parts exporter, and 2026 World Cup subhost city.
Saltimbocca
Saltimbocca, or saltimbocca alla romana, is a Roman dish of thin veal cutlets topped with sage and prosciutto, floured and cooked in butter with white wine; first recorded by Artusi in 1871, its origin is disputed with Brescia.
Saltine cracker
Saltine cracker (also soda cracker, soda biscuit): thin, square, perforated US cracker of white flour, baking soda and/or yeast, shortening, coarse salt topping; first made by F.L. Sommer in 1876, part of Nabisco from 1898.
Saltine cracker challenge
Saltine cracker challenge (saltine challenge): a food dare to eat six saltine soda crackers in 60 seconds without drinking, crumbs included. Hard because crackers absorb saliva; Guinness record is 6.
Salting out
Salting out is a laboratory separation technique in which high salt concentrations, usually ammonium sulfate, lower protein solubility and cause precipitation without denaturing the proteins.
Salting the earth
Salting the earth, also called sowing with salt, is a ritual of scattering salt over a ruined city to curse it, as at Shechem in Judges 9:45.
Saltire
Saltire: the heraldic and vexillological diagonal X-cross, from Old French sautoir. Also the white saltire on blue St Andrew's Cross, Scotland's national flag since at least the 1286 Guardians' seal.
Salto (robot)
Salto is a small one-legged jumping robot developed at the University of California, Berkeley, introduced in 2016 as the most vertically agile jumping robot ever built at the time.