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Salt evaporation pond — Salt evaporation ponds are shallow man made ponds designed to produce salt from sea water. The seawater is fed into large ponds and water is drawn out through natural evaporation which allows the salt to be subsequently harvested. The ponds also… … Wikipedia
Salt pan — Salt pans can refer to: *Salt pan (geology), a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually found in deserts *Salt evaporation pond, a method of producing salt by evaporating brine … Wikipedia
salt — salt1 saltlike, adj. /sawlt/, n. 1. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc. 2. table salt mixed with a particular herb or… … Universalium
SALT — /sawlt/, n. See Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. * * * I Chemical compound formed when the hydrogen of an acid is replaced by a metal or its equivalent, such as ammonium (NH4). Typically, an acid and a base react to form a salt and water. Most… … Universalium
Salt pan (geology) — Natural salt pans are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts, and should not be confused with man made salt evaporation ponds. A salt pan is formed where water… … Wikipedia
Salt — This article is about common table salt. For other uses, see Salt (disambiguation). Table salt (NaCl) crystal … Wikipedia
Salt in Cheshire — Cheshire is a county in North West England. Rock salt was laid down in this region some 220 million years ago, during the Triassic geological era. Seawater moved inland from an open sea, creating a chain of shallow salt marshes across what is… … Wikipedia
salt pan — noun Etymology: Middle English salt panne 1. : an undrained natural depression in which water gathers and leaves a deposit of salt on evaporation 2. : a large pan for making salt by evaporation * * * an undrained natural depression, as a crater… … Useful english dictionary
SALT — In common with other developed agricultural communities, salt was an essential commodity for the Etruscans, particularly for storage. Salt was probably procured from coastal salt pans, especially concentrated around the Tiber estuary, but the… … Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans
Salt Road — A Salt Road ( fr. Route du Sel) is any of the prehistoric and historical trade routes by which essential salt has been transported to regions that lacked it (see History of salt).From the Bronze Age (in the 2nd millennium BC) fixed transhumance… … Wikipedia
