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Salting may refer to:
People
- George Salting (1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector, who left the Salting Bequest, which included the
- Salting Madonna (Antonello da Messina), National Gallery, London
Other
- Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
- Salting the earth, the practice of 'sowing' salt on cities or property as a symbolic act
- Salt marsh
- Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
- Salting (initiation ceremony), an early modern English university initiation ceremony
- Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icing agent
- Figuratively, adding ('sprinkling') a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons
- Salt (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
- Salted bomb, a nuclear weapon specifically engineered to enhance residual radioactivity
- Salting (confidence trick), 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 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), a labor union tactic involving the act of getting a job at a specific workplace with the intent of organizing a union
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