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salt

(n): a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
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8 minutes ago yarb said:

...we were too salt to believe every yarn that comes into the forecastle, and waited to hear the truth of the matter from higher authority.

- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25

9 months ago bilby said:

"Take one of my tears,
Throw it into the ocean
and watch the salt in the wounds
Of this earth and men begin to disappear."
- Hafiz, translation by Daniel Ladinsky.

10 months ago chained_bear said:

Captured at Yorktown, "50 bags salt, 50 bushels."

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