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Salt vs Fluoride - What's the difference?

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In context|chemistry|lang=en terms the difference between salt and fluoride

is that salt is (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 while fluoride is (chemistry) a binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical.

As nouns the difference between salt and fluoride

is that salt is a common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (nacl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative while fluoride is (chemistry) any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride.

As a adjective salt

is salty; salted.

As a verb salt

is to add salt to.

salt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
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  • (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.
  • (uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
  • (slang) A sailor .
  • * 1850 , Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
  • Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts .
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
  • I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt , do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
  • (cryptography) Randomly]] chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting it, in order to render [[brute force, brute-force decryption more difficult.
  • A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
  • (obsolete) flavour; taste; seasoning
  • * Shakespeare
  • Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen we have some salt of our youth in us.
  • (obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
  • Attic salt
  • (obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts .
  • (figurative) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
  • His statements must be taken with a grain of salt .
  • * Bible, Matthew v. 13
  • Ye are the salt of the earth.

    Derived terms

    * chicken salt * desalt * Epsom salt * persalt * pinch of salt * protosalt * rock salt * rub salt in the wound / rub salt in a wound * salt and pepper * saltcellar * salt lake * Salt Lake City * salt marsh * salt of the earth * salt sea * saltwater * salty * sea salt * table salt * take with a pinch of salt *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Salty; salted.
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  • Saline.
  • (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
  • (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add salt to.
  • to salt fish, beef, or pork
  • To deposit salt as a saline solution.
  • The brine begins to salt .
  • (mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
  • (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
  • To include colorful language in.
  • To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
  • (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
  • To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  • Antonyms

    * (add salt) desalt

    Derived terms

    * desalt * salt away

    Anagrams

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    fluoride

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , date = 2004-08-08 , author = Mike Adams , title = Fluoride conference reveals fraudulent science behind mass fluoridation; fluoride policy is a public fraud , site = naturalnews.com , url = http://www.naturalnews.com/001807.html , accessdate = 2013-09-06 }}
    Fluorosilicic acid is not fluoride , it is something very different, and it strikes me as downright bizarre that it is perfectly legal to dump this toxic waste product into the rivers and streams of America as long as it passes through the bodies of human beings first. In other words, it's illegal to take a bucket of fluorosilicic acid and dump it into a stream, but it is perfectly legal to dump it into the bodies of human beings, whose waste products will subsequently enter those same streams and rivers.
  • (chemistry) A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical.
  • Derived terms

    *actinium fluoride *aluminium fluoride *ammonium fluoride *argentous fluoride *berkelium fluoride *beryllium fluoride *borofluoride *cadmium fluoride *caesium fluoride, cesium fluoride *calcium fluoride *chlorine fluoride *difluoride *ferric fluoride *fluoridation *fluoridisation, fluoridization *heptafluoride *hexafluoride *krypton fluoride *lithium fluoride *magnesium fluoride *monofluoride *nitrosyl fluoride *nitryl fluoride *oxygen fluoride *pentafluoride *polyvinyl fluoride *polyvinylidene fluoride *potassium fluoride *potassium zirconium fluoride *radium fluoride *radon fluoride *scandium fluoride *silver fluoride *sodium aluminium fluoride *sodium fluoride *sulfuryl fluoride, sulphuryl fluoride *tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride *tetrafluoride *thionyl fluoride *trifluoride *tungsten fluoride *uranium hexafluoride *yttrium fluoride *yttrium lithium fluoride