• Look up saltation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saltation may refer to: Saltation (biology), an evolutionary hypothesis emphasizing sudden and drastic...
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    water vapour. Saltation layers can also form in avalanches.[citation needed] Aeolian landform Aeolian processes Bagnold formula Saltation (biology) Saltatory...
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    more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in...
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  • In biology, saltation (from Latin saltus 'leap, jump') is a sudden and large mutational change from one generation to the next, potentially causing single-step...
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    As-Salt (Arabic: السلط As-Salt), also known as Salt, is an ancient trading city and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main...
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  • Salting in refers to the effect where increasing the ionic strength of a solution increases the solubility of a solute, such as a protein. This effect...
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  • Look up salter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salter may refer to: Salter (surname) Salter (trap) Salter Brecknell, a manufacturer of light commercial...
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  • Look up salting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salting or Salted may refer to: George Salting (1835–1909), Australian-born English art collector,...
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    by a range of mechanisms: suspension, saltation and creep. A study from 2008 finds that the initial saltation of sand particles induces a static electric...
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  • tactile domain, analogous sensory saltation illusions have been observed in audition and vision. The word "saltation" refers to the leaping or jumping...
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    and clasts interact with the substratum during transport. By contrast, saltation, a related sediment transport process, moves grains across the bottom...
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    traction/surface creep, saltation, and suspension. Traction or surface creep is a process of larger grains sliding or rolling across the surface. Saltation refers to...
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  • Salt flats, Salt flat, Salt Flats, or Salt Flat may refer to: Salt pan (geology), a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals Dry lake...
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    Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan. The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, mainly...
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    preserving food. It is also called bay salt, solar salt, or simply salt. Like mined rock salt, production of sea salt has been dated to prehistoric times...
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    Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the seat of Salt Lake County...
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  • word for a salt pan (geology) Salt evaporation pond, a method of producing salt by evaporating brine Open-pan salt making is a method of salt production...
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  • Look up salt of the earth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salt of the earth is a phrase used by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, part of a discourse...
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    In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions...
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  • Salting the earth, or sowing with salt, is the ritual of spreading salt on the sites of cities razed by conquerors. It originated as a curse on re-inhabitation...
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  • Al-Salt Sport Club (Arabic: نادي السلط الرياضي) is a professional football club based in Al-Salt, Jordan. Founded in 1965, Al-Salt first participated...
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    To take something with a "grain of salt" or "pinch of salt" is an English idiom that suggests to view something, specifically claims that may be misleading...
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  • Black salt may refer to: Kala namak, a type of rock salt, salty and pungent-smelling condiment used in South Asia Black lava salt, a sea salt blended...
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    The Salt march, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India...
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    Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who won Academy Awards for both Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home. Salt was born...
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  • (Jamaica) Salt River (Garden Route) Salt River (Western Cape) Salt River (Arizona), the largest tributary of the Gila River Salado culture Salt River Pima–Maricopa...
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  • cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend against...
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    Kosher salt or kitchen salt (also called cooking salt, rock salt, kashering salt, or koshering salt) is coarse edible salt usually without common additives...
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    supply of mutations. Before Darwin, biologists commonly believed in saltationism, the possibility of large evolutionary jumps, including immediate speciation...
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  • recognized for her work proposing normal human growth to be a pattern of saltation and stasis. However, her original observations of human saltatory growth...
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