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The Ayoreo, an indigenous group from the Paraguayan Chaco, obtain their salt from the ash produced by burning the timber of the Indian salt tree (Maytenus vitis-idaea) and other trees. [ 91 ] The largest mine operated by underground workings in the world is the Sifto mine, located mostly 550 meters below Lake Huron, in Goderich, Ontario (Canada).
Nomadic groups like the Khyampa, with no land of their own, traded both salt and rice, using sheep, goats and yaks in their travels as a means of survival. Other products from India and China were also bartered. [5] Tibet had plenty of salt but little rice, while the rice was plentiful in southern Nepal but salt was lacking.
Sea salt being added to raw ham to make prosciutto. Salting is the preservation of food with dry edible salt. [1] It is related to pickling in general and more specifically to brining also known as fermenting (preparing food with brine, that is, salty water) and is one form of curing.
Salting roads, the application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icing agent; Salting a bird's tail, a superstition; Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt; Figuratively, adding ("sprinkling") a small quantity of something to something else for various reasons Salt (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
A salt cellar (also called a salt, salt-box) is an article of tableware for holding and dispensing salt. In British English, the term can be used for what in North American English are called salt shakers. [1] [2] Salt cellars can be either lidded or open, and are found in a wide range of sizes, from large shared vessels to small individual ...
A minuscule handbag measuring just 657 by 222 by 700 microns (or less than 0.03 inches wide) sold for over $63,000 at an online auction Wednesday.
(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
The word "salary" comes from the Latin word for salt. The persistent modern claim that the Roman Legions were sometimes paid in salt [1] [9] is baseless; a salārium may have been an allowance paid to Roman soldiers for the purchase of salt, but even that is not well established. [10] [11]