salt
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The pair sought help by walking across the salt flats, before severe heat prevented the 68-year-old from continuing after 1.3 miles, according to the Death Valley National Park.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
For as long as people have traveled by sea, ships have needed protection from water, salt, microorganisms, and marine animals such as worms.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
For decades, food companies have relied on a proven playbook: cater to consumers’ taste buds with sugar, salt and a steadily expanding galaxy of flavors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Faivre said the secret to recipes for family favorites is often lots of fat, salt and sugar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Turns out kids couldn’t resist eating dough, even if all it was flavored with was salt and flour.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
They said these often contained heavy metal salts or nitrosamines that can leach into the environment once the balloon degrades.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kyle Shanahan must believe the olfactory exhilaration of smelling salts enhances his coaching ability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Then I’ll drink a whole liter of water if I need to replenish my body with some electrolytes and some mineral salts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Spent firecrackers scatter residue that contains partially burned fuel, metal salts, additives, and pieces of charred packaging.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 4, 2026
Even after diversion, the water gushes through irrigation channels so quickly that it can’t evaporate and build up salts in the soil.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The birds are gutted, plucked and salted on Sula Sgeir before being taken by boat to Lewis where they are counted by a NatureScot official.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The strips were then blanched, salted, and fried in soybean oil that had been heated to 180 degrees Celsius.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
When dried and salted, guitarfish is used in soups and stews across Ghana.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
You can very easily make salted corn chips at home with some corn flour, oil, and salt.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
First, the bad news: “Snowcrete” is the treacherous ice that results when rain, imprecise or nonexistent plowing and insufficient salting turn what was once fluffy white snow into a dense and dirty scourge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Rock samples dating from 1995 to 1997 were analysed and found to have been tampered with through a process called salting.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
They could get a job now and start salting away that cash and get some great life lessons along the way.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2024
The Drexel team has been developing its cold-weather-resilient concrete mix over the last five years with the goal of reducing the freezing, thawing and salting that eats away at roads and other concrete surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
With consequences for her too — who could imagine her salting a mother-in-law’s soup just so?
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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