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• George Salting
  George Salting
  George Salting was an Australian-born British art collector of pictures and many other categories of art, whose works were left to the National Gallery, London, Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum.-Early life:...
  
   (1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector, who left the Salting Bequest, which included the
  • Salting Madonna (Antonello da Messina)
    Salting Madonna (Antonello da Messina)
    The Madonna with Child is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. It is housed in the National Gallery, London...
    
    , National Gallery, London

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• Salting (food)
  Salting (food)
  Salting is the preservation of food with dry edible salt. It is related to pickling . It is one of the oldest methods of preserving food, and two historically significant salt-cured foods are dried and salted cod and salt-cured meat.Salting is used because most bacteria, fungi and other potentially...
  
  , the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
• Salting the earth
  Salting the earth
  Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on conquered cities to symbolize a curse on its re-inhabitation. It originated as a practice in the ancient Near East and became a well-established folkloric motif in the Middle Ages.-Destroying cities:The custom of purifying...
  
  , the practice of 'sowing' salt on cities or property as a symbolic act
• Salting out
  Salting out
  Salting out is a method of separating proteins based on the principle that proteins are less soluble at high salt concentrations. The salt concentration needed for the protein to precipitate out of the solution differs from protein to protein...
  
  , a method of separating proteins using salt
• Salting (initiation ceremony)
  Salting (initiation ceremony)
  Saltings were festive ceremonies which, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, initiated Cambridge and Oxford freshmen into the academic and social communities of their individual colleges. Humorous speeches by one or more sophisters introduced first-year students to the assembled college...
  
  , an early modern English university initiation ceremony
• Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a deicing
  Deicing
  For snow and ice control on roadways and similar facilities, see Snow removalDe-icing is defined as removal of snow, ice or frost from a surface...
  
   agent

• Figuratively, adding ('sprinkling') a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons
  • Salting (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
  • Salted bomb
    Salted bomb
    A salted bomb is a variation of a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced quantities of radioactive fallout, rendering a large area uninhabitable...
    
    , a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity
  • Salting (confidence trick)
    Salting (confidence trick)
    In mineral exploration, salting is the process of adding gold or silver to an ore sample to change the value of the ore with intent to deceive, cheat or defraud any person. In the US state of Arizona it is a class 6 felony...
    
    , 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
  • Salt, allowing a horse to catch the nagana
    Nagana
    Nagana, also known as nagana pest or animal African trypanosomiasis, is a disease of vertebrate animals. The disease is caused by trypanosomes of several species in the genus Trypanosoma. The trypanosomes infect the blood of the vertebrate host, causing fever, weakness, and lethargy, which lead to...
    
     disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas
  • Salting mailing lists, including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse
• Salt (union organizing)
  Salt (union organizing)
  Salting is a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union. A person so employed is called a "salt"....
  
  , a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union