salt out
verb
salted out; salting out; salts out
: to precipitate, coagulate, or separate (something, such as a dissolved substance) especially from a solution by the addition of salt
: to become salted out
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Before reseeding or sodding such areas, drench them with water to wash the salts out of the soil.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
Rain that fell after the experiments in 2022 and 2023 washed salts out of the soil.
—Patrick Megonigal, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Diuretics, also called water pills, help to flush excess liquid and salt out of your body by triggering your kidneys to pump out more urine.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 22 Oct. 2024
Under the proposal, which is still in the early stages, the plant would take between 20 million to 80 million gallons of water a day from the bay, run it through filters to strip the salt out and serve from 10 million to 40 million gallons a day of freshwater to South Bay homes and businesses.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
Compared to pure seawater, however, the energy required to get the salt out of this water would be much lower.
—Hannah Richter, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
Environment:Keeping salt out of crops requires more water.
—Kayla Jackson, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
An Escondido boy who built a machine to take the salt out of ocean water and a San Diego girl who made a series of models of microscopic animals won grand prizes last night in the opening of the Greater San Diego Science Fair in the Institute of Aeronautical Science building.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
Without crops, no one could live in the valley for up to 600 years, until the minimal rainfall in this desert-like climate washed the salt out of the fields.
—Christopher R. Moore, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
Rain that fell after the experiments in 2022 and 2023 washed salts out of the soil.
—Patrick Megonigal, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
Diuretics, also called water pills, help to flush excess liquid and salt out of your body by triggering your kidneys to pump out more urine.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 22 Oct. 2024
Under the proposal, which is still in the early stages, the plant would take between 20 million to 80 million gallons of water a day from the bay, run it through filters to strip the salt out and serve from 10 million to 40 million gallons a day of freshwater to South Bay homes and businesses.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
Compared to pure seawater, however, the energy required to get the salt out of this water would be much lower.
—Hannah Richter, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
Environment:Keeping salt out of crops requires more water.
—Kayla Jackson, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
An Escondido boy who built a machine to take the salt out of ocean water and a San Diego girl who made a series of models of microscopic animals won grand prizes last night in the opening of the Greater San Diego Science Fair in the Institute of Aeronautical Science building.
—Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
Without crops, no one could live in the valley for up to 600 years, until the minimal rainfall in this desert-like climate washed the salt out of the fields.
—Christopher R. Moore, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
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“Salt out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salt%20out. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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