Salting

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Salting may refer to:

• Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
• Salting (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
• Salting the earth, the military practice of spreading salt on fields to make them unusable for crop-growing
• Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
• The application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icer.
• A kind of confidence trick in which valuable resources are scattered on a piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer.
• 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

[edit] See also

• Salt (disambiguation)

Salting (mines) taking good ore from one mine and transporting it to another mine with bad ore. This created the gold rush in Southwest Colorado by a man named scarfaced bill.