Salt

Salt
In medicine, salt usually refers to sodium chloride, table salt, used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. Salt is found in the earth and in sea water and is isolated by evaporation and crystallization from sea water and other water impregnated with particles of salt. The salt content of food is usually given in terms of "Sodium." For example, the label on a can of lentil soup may list "Sodium 440mg" per cup (242g). The adjective for "salt" most often used in medicine is not salty but "saline."
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1. A compound formed by the interaction of an acid and a base, the ionizable hydrogen atoms of the acid being replaced by the positive ion of the base. 2. Sodium chloride, the prototypical s.. 3. A saline cathartic, especially magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, or Rochelle s.; often denoted by the plural, salts. SYN: sal. [L. sal]
- acid s. a s. in which not all of the ionizable hydrogen of the acid is replaced by the electropositive element; e.g., NaHSO4, KH2PO4. SYN: protosalt.
- artificial Carlsbad s. a mixture of potassium sulfate, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and dried sodium sulfate; a laxative.
- basic s. a s. in which there are one or more hydroxyl ions not replaced by the electronegative element of an acid; e.g., Fe(OH)2Cl.
- bile salts the s. forms of bile acids; e.g., taurocholate, glycocholate.
- bone s. bone-s..
- common s. SYN: sodium chloride.
- diazonium salts salts of a theoretical base, R–ΞN or R–N=NOH, useful in histochemistry to demonstrate tissue phenols and aryl amines or with enzymatically released naphthols and naphthylamines to form the chromophore azo group –N=N–; diazonium salts contain only one R–ΞN group, tetrazonium salts contain two, and hexazonium salts contain three; examples include fast garnet GBC base and naphthol AS.
- double s. a s. in which two different positive ions are bonded to the same negative ion, or vice versa; e.g., NaKSO4.
- effervescent salts preparations made by adding sodium bicarbonate and tartaric and citric acid s to the active s.; when thrown into water the acids break up the sodium bicarbonate, setting free the carbonic acid gas.
- Epsom salts SYN: magnesium sulfate.
- hexazonium salts diazonium salts that contain three azo groups.
- Reinecke s. an ammonium s. prepared by fusing ammonium thiocyanate with ammonium dichromate; dark red crystals; used in the detection and analysis of primary and secondary amines, including amino acid s; also used as a reagent for mercury.
- Rivière s. SYN: potassium citrate.
- Rochelle s. SYN: potassium sodium tartrate.
- smelling salts SYN: aromatic ammonia spirit.
- s. substitute A low-sodium food additive that tastes like s., such as potassium chloride; useful as a dietary alternative to s..
- table s. SYN: sodium chloride.
- tetrazonium salts diazonium salts that contain two azo groups.
- s. of wisdom SYN: sal alembroth.
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salt 'sȯlt n
1 a) a crystalline compound NaCl that is the chloride of sodium, is abundant in nature, and is used esp. to season or preserve food or in industry called also common salt, sodium chloride
b) a substance (as Glauber's salt) resembling common salt
c) any of numerous compounds that result from replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen of an acid by a metal or a group acting like a metal: an ionic crystalline compound
2) salts pl
a) a mineral or saline mixture (as Epsom salts) used as an aperient or cathartic
b) SMELLING SALTS
salt adj
1) SALINE, SALTY
2) being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is suggestive of seawater compare BITTER, SOUR, SWEET

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(sawlt) [A.S. sealt] 1. sodium chloride; common, or table, salt. 2. any compound of a base and an acid; any compound of an acid some of whose replaceable hydrogen atoms have been substituted. (in the pl.) 3. saline cathartic.

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