salting

Verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

1. (transitive) To add salt to.
   • to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter

   Synonyms:

   salt down

2. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
   • The brine begins to salt.
3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
4. To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
5. To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
6. (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
   • The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a...1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page 417

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