SALTS

"SALTS" is a plural of: salt.

Date "SALTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1693. (references)

Environment

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pungency

Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a.

Remedy

Agueweed, arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset, calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts; feverroot, feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina; sassafras, yarrow.

Crosswords: SALTS

Better have smelling salts handy and a nip of brandy (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

Now to mention the money I'd save on epsom salts and ace bandages (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman)

Well, us civilians need more rest and recreation than you Old Salts. (In Harm's Way; writing credit: James Bassett; Wendell Mayes)

Smell the smelling salts! (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.)

Sea Salts (1949)

The Adventure of the Smelling Salts (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Inorganic Chemical Elements, Oxides and Halogen Salts (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Metallic Salts and Peroxysalts of Inorganic Acids in Oceana (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Salts and Pure Sodium Chloride Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Salts and Pure Sodium Chloride Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Salts and Pure Sodium Chloride: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Corrosive Agents & Their Interaction With Materials: Acid Halides, Amine Salts, Bromides, Bromine, Carbonic Acid, Lithium Hydroxide (The Dechema corr (reference)

• Quaternary Ammonium Salts (reference)

• Dechema Corrosion Handbook: Aliphatic Ketones, Ammonium Salts, Atmosphere, Potassium Chloride (reference)

• Sterling silver holloware: tea and coffee services, pitchers and candelabra, salts and peppers, desk sets and dressing sets, berry bowls, napkin rings, cups, tea balls and bells, trays, flasks, match safes (reference)

• A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Blown Tableware, Pressed Cup Plates and Salts (reference)

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Music

• Smelling Salts (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tetrathionate enrichment broth contains bile salts, thereby, inhibiting the growth of gram-positive organisms, while salmonella, an organism which possess the enzyme tetrathionate reductase, grows uninhibited. Credit: CDC.

Efficient irrigation systems help save water and decrease leaching of salts. Credit: Gene Alexander.

Two "old salts" on the ship's forecastle, circa the 1870s. Note the rating badges on their right sleeves. Also seen are a bell, winch, chain and gratings. Credit: NAVY.

Seven "Old Salts" engaged in telling tall tales aboard USS Enterprise (1877-1909), circa 1887. Photographed by E.H. Hart, New York. Suitable verses from "The Tale of the Gyascutus" are printed below the original photographic image. The entire poem is provided below. Credit: NAVY.

Sailors and a Marine on board USS Saratoga (CV-3), during the 1930s, arranged in a group resembling that of an 1880s era "Old Salts" photograph. See Photo # NH 58319 for the view that inspired this one. Note use of a cake pan in place of the spittoon of the 1880s photo. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The present arrangement shall also apply to cinchona bark and salts of quinine. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts.

Long bar, and salts, peppers, mustard pots, and paper napkins

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Bile contains water, cholesterol, fats, bile salts, and bilirubin. (references)

They also keep a stable balance of salts and other substances in the blood. (references)

Its composition includes bile acids and salts, cholesterol, and electrolytes. (references)

Business

Technologies being used today can recover usable amounts of process water, size, indigo, polyvinyl alcohol and salts. (references)

The quality of calcium salts using ethanol as a solvent are of poor quality and in short supply in the domestic market. (references)

The best prospects in Poland are for companies offering the latest technology and equipment for chemical and biological treatment of waste water, technologies for safe sludge disposal, for desalination and residuals disposal (including marketing of salts), and recycling of water in industrial plants. (references)

Economic History

Iraq

A disastrous attempt to drain the southern marshes and introduce irrigated farming to this region merely destroyed a natural food producing area, while concentration of salts and minerals in the soil due to the draining left the land unsuitable for agriculture. (references)

Colombia

Best sales prospects include white mineral oils, alcohol's, phenols, o-acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters, amino-acids, vegetable and synthetic tanning and coloring substances, essential oils, flavorings, fragrances or odoriferous (raw materials) substances, base chemical products for cosmetics, soaps, detergents and cleaning, sodium bicarbonate, phosphates, chlorides, iodine, camphor, and surface-active agents (tensoactives). (references)

Trade

Jordan

Other exceptions include Dead Sea salts, which require an export license. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "SALTS": Abraum salts ♦ ammonium salts ♦ bath salts ♦ bathroom salts ♦ Bile Acids and Salts ♦ bitter salts ♦ Black salts ♦ conducting salts ♦ Epsom salts ♦ fruit salts ♦ Glauber's salts ♦ he salts down his money ♦ Lixivial salts ♦ manurial salts ♦ need smth. like a dose of salts ♦ Rochelle salts ♦ salts of lemon ♦ salts of sorrel ♦ smelling salts ♦ soda salts ♦ Tetrazolium Salts ♦ Theophylline Salts ♦ vegetation of salts. Additional references.

Ending with "SALTS": bath-salts, sea-salts, smelling-salts, smellin'-salts.

Albanian

kripë për nuhatje (sal volatile). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشادر (ammonia, ammonium, smelling salts), ‏أملاح الشم (smelling salts). (various references)

Bulgarian 

очистително (cathartic, physic, purgative). (various references)

Chinese 

盐 (saline, SALT). (various references)

Czech

aromatická sùl. (various references)

Danish

sundhedssalte (health salts), smeltelige salte (melting salts), smeltede salte i form af reaktions- eller varmeoverfoeringsmedium kan komme i beroering med staalene (molten salts in the form of reagents or heat exchangers may come into contact with the steels), saltsmelte (fused salts, molten salts), saltblanding fremstillet til medicinske bade (mixed salts prepared for medicinal baths), letfordampelige salte (volatile salts), badesalt (bath salts, bath-salt), bundne salte (fixed salts), disse salte fremstilles enten af spiselige fedtstoffer eller af destillerede spisefedtsyrer (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), E470 (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), eutektiske salte (eutectic salts), flygtige salte (volatile salts), fuldstændig fiksering af chromsalte i huder (total fixation of chromium salts in skins), gødskningssalte (manurial salts), ikke flygtige salte (fixed salts), affaldssalte og opløsninger heraf (waste salts and their solutions), ledesalte (conducting salts), urinsalte (urine salts), lithiumsalte (lithium salts), mineralske salte (mineral salts), natrium-,kalium-og calciumsalte af spisefedtsyrer,alene eller blandede (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), proever af partikulaere og gasformede blyforbindelser omdannes til oploesninger af blysalte,som kan analyseres (particulate and gaseous lead samples are converted into solutions of lead salts that may be analyzed), tøsalt (de-icing chemicals, de-icing salts), tungtfordampelige salte (fixed salts). (various references)

Dutch

smeltende zouten (melting salts), smeltmiddel (de-icing chemicals, de-icing salts, flux, fluxing material, solvent), ijzer-zouten (ferrous salts, iron(ii) salts), goudzouten (gold salts), gesmolten zouten (fused salts, molten salts), geleidingszouten (conducting salts), E470 (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), lithiumzouten (lithium salts), dooimiddel (de-icing chemicals, de-icing salts), chemie der gesmolten zouten (chemistry of melted salts), bruispoeders (health salts), bariumzouten (barium salts), badzout (bath salts, bath-salt), eutectische zouten (eutectic salts), natrium-,kalium-of calciumzouten van in spijsvetten voorkomende vetzuren,al dan niet gemengd,verkregen uit spijsvetten of uit gedistilleerde vetzuren van spijsvetten (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), zoutsmelten (fused salts, molten salts), zoutafval en oplossingen daarvan (waste salts and their solutions), volledige fixatie van de chroomzouten in de huiden (total fixation of chromium salts in skins), vluchtige ammoniumzouten (volatile salts), urinezout (urine salts), niet-vluchtige ammoniumzouten (fixed salts), ammonii carbonas (urine salts), mineralen (mineral salts, minerals), mestzout (manurial salts), mengsel van geneeskrachtige badzouten (mixed salts prepared for medicinal baths), loodmonsters in de vorm van deeltjes en van gas worden omgezet in loodzoutoplossingen die geanalyseerd kunnen worden (particulate and gaseous lead samples are converted into solutions of lead salts that may be analyzed), zoutsmelten kunnen als reactiemiddel of warmteoverdrager met het staal in contact komen (molten salts in the form of reagents or heat exchangers may come into contact with the steels), koperzouten hebben een dodelijke werking op conidiën en alle zoμsporen van valse meeldauw (copper salts have a lethal effect on conidia and all zoospores germinating from the mildew ( peronospora )), niet-vluchtige zouten (fixed salts). (various references)

Finnish

terveyssuola. (various references)

French

sels (smelling salts), saler (add salt, salt). (various references)

German

salzt, Salze. (various references)

Greek 

άλατα ούρων (urine salts), τα άλατα του χαλκού έχουν θανατηφόρο αποτέλεσμα στα κονίδια και όλα τα ζωοσπόρια που βλαστάνουν από τον περονόσπορο (copper salts have a lethal effect on conidia and all zoospores germinating from the mildew ( peronospora )), τήξιμα άλατα (melting salts), τηγμένα άλατα (fused salts, molten salts), απόβλητα άλατα και διαλύματά τους (waste salts and their solutions), αμμωνία χρησιμοποιουμένη εισ λιποθυμίασ (smelling salts), αμμωνιακά αλάτα (ammonium salts), αναβράζοντα άλατα (health salts), τα δείγματα μολύβδου σε αέρια ή σωματιδιακή μορφή μετατρέπονται σε διαλύματα αλάτων μολύβδου που μπορούν να αναλυθούν (particulate and gaseous lead samples are converted into solutions of lead salts that may be analyzed), άλατα (mineral salts), μη πτητικά άλατα (fixed salts), άλατα αγωγιμότητας (conducting salts), άλατα λιθίου (lithium salts), άλατα για το λουτρό (bath salts), εύτηκτα άλατα (eutectic salts), χημικά διαλυτικά πάγου (de-icing chemicals, de-icing salts), πτητικά άλατα (volatile salts), μείγμα παρασκευασμένων αλάτων για ιατρικά λουτρά (mixed salts prepared for medicinal baths), μεταλλικά άλατα (mineral salts), μεταξύ των παθολογικών ενδείξεων,είναι χαρακτηριστικό σημείο η ανεύρεση της γραμμής του Burton,η οποία επιβεβαιώνει την πολύ μεγάλη σημειολο (particularly in the handling of lead salts in powder form), λιπάσματα (fertilisers). (various references)

Hungarian

purgáló sók, hashajtó sók. (various references)

Italian

sali (smelling salts). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

塩類 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

えんるい. (various references)

Korean 

소금 (SALT). (various references)

Manx

sulfait vagneish (Epsom salts), sollan soar (smelling salts), sollan sharroo (Epsom salts), sollan Epsom (Epsom salts). (various references)

Pig Latin

altssay.(various references)

Portuguese

sais. (various references)

Romanian

sare (pep, salt, spice). (various references)

Russian 

нюхательная соль (hartshorn, sal volatile, smelling salts, smelling-salts). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

soli. (various references)

Spanish

sales. (various references)

Swedish

smältande salt (melting salts), saltsmälta (fused salts, molten salts), näringssalt (manurial salts), mineralsalter (mineral salts), luktsalt (sal volatile, salvolatile, smelling salts), ledsalt (conducting salts), kemiskt halkbekämpningsmedel (de-icing chemicals, de-icing salts), fruktsalt (fruit salts), färgning av neuron med silversalter (staining neurons with silver salts), eutektiskt salt (eutectic salts), epsomsalt (epsom salts), badsalt (bath salts). (various references)

Thai

ยาแก้เวียนศีรษะ (smelling salts). (various references)

Turkish

ruh (astral body, aura, esprit, essence, essential oil, genius, ghost, heartbeat, inner man, manes, pith, pith and marrow, psyche, shade, smelling salts, soul, spirit), magnezyum sülfat (epsom salt, epsom salts), limon tuzu (citric acid, salts of lemon), ingiliz tuzu (epsom salt, epsom salts), amonyak ruhu (smelling salts). (various references)

Ukrainian

морська вода (sea, seawater). (various references)

Welsh

halwyn (salt). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SALTS": saltshaker, saltshakers. (additional references)

Words ending with "SALTS": basalts, desalts, oversalts, oxysalts, persalts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SALTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: altz, asalt, Aslsq, Astles, sallus, salps, sals, salte, saltish, Salto, saltus, salus, saluts, sauts, smaltz, soltus, sults, zals, zalt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lasts, slats.

-1 letter: alts, lass, last, lats, sals, salt, slat, tass.

-2 letters: als, alt, ass, las, lat, sal, sat, tas.

-3 letters: al, as, at, la, ta.

+1 letter: blasts, clasts, leasts, saults, slants, slates, smalts, splats, stales, stalks, stalls, steals, tassel, teslas, tussal.

+2 letters: artless, assault, astrals, atlases, basalts, castles, cutlass, desalts, falsest, fatless, haslets, hatless, instals, lasters, latests, lysates, matless, oblasts, pastels, pastils, postals, sallets, salters, saltest, salties, saltish, salutes, samlets, santols, sheltas, skatols, slaters, smaltos, solates, spitals, stables, stalags, stalest, staples, stellas, sultans, tahsils, taluses, tarsals, tassels, taxless, teasels, tissual, vestals.