Salt vs. Phosphate

Salt vs. Phosphate — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Salt and Phosphate

Saltnoun

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

Phosphatenoun

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.

Saltnoun

(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

Phosphatenoun

A carbonated soft drink sweetened with fruit syrup and with some phosphoric acid.

Saltnoun

(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

Phosphateverb

To treat or coat with a phosphate or with phosphoric acid

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Saltnoun

(slang) A sailor also old salt.

Phosphatenoun

a salt of phosphoric acid

Saltnoun

(cryptography) Randomly chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting or hashing it, in order to render brute-force decryption more difficult.

Phosphatenoun

carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid

Saltnoun

A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.

Saltnoun

(obsolete) Flavour; taste; seasoning.

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Saltnoun

(obsolete) Piquancy; wit; sense.

Attic salt

Saltnoun

(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.

Saltnoun

(figurative) Skepticism and common sense.

Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.

Saltnoun

(Internet slang) Indignation; outrage; arguing.

There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.

Saltadjective

Salty; salted.

salt beef;salt tears

Saltadjective

Saline.

a salt marsh;salt grass

Saltadjective

Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.

a salt mineThe salt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.

Saltadjective

Bitter; sharp; pungent.

Saltadjective

Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.

Saltverb

(transitive) To add salt to.

to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter

Saltverb

(intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.

The brine begins to salt.

Saltverb

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

Saltverb

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

Saltverb

(mining) To blast metal into as a portion of a mine in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

Saltverb

(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.

Saltverb

To include colorful language in.

Saltverb

(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.

Saltnoun

a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

Saltnoun

white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

Saltnoun

negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

Saltnoun

the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth

Saltverb

add salt to

Saltverb

sprinkle as if with salt;

the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps

Saltverb

add zest or liveliness to;

She salts her lectures with jokes

Saltverb

preserve with salt;

people used to salt meats on ships

Saltadjective

containing or filled with salt;

salt water

Saltadjective

of speech that is painful or bitter;

salt scorna salt apology

Saltadjective

one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water