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Single-source entries: S (11)
Each of these 11 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Salpa
a genus of ascidian or tunicate mollusca forming the representative example of the family Salpida. These animals are found floating in the Mediterranean and the warmer parts of the ocean, and are protected by a tran transparent gelatinous coat, perforated for the passage of water at both extremities. They are frequently phosphorescent, and are met with in two conditions known as single and chain salpæ. Each salpa is of oval or quadrate form, and the organs of the body occupy a comparatively small space within the body-cavity, S. maxima is the most familiar species.
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Salsette
an island N. of Bombay, British India, with which it is connected by a bridge and a causeway. It is a beautiful island, diversified by mountain and hill, studded with the ruins of Portuguese churches, convents, and villas, and rich in extensive rice fields, cocoanut groves, and palm trees; area, 240 square miles; pop. 150,000; chief town, Thana. Nearly 100 caves and cave-temples exist at Kanhari or Keneri, in the middle of the island, 5 miles W. of Thana. They are excavated in the face of a single hill, and contain elaborate carvings chiefly representations of Buddha, many of colossal size. There are caves in other localities besides those at Kanhari-e.g., at Montpezir, Kanduti, Amboli, etc. It was occupied by the Portuguese early in the 16th century, and was captured by the Mahrattas in 1739 and by the British in 1774.
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Salt
in chemistry, sodium chloride. In the plural it is applied in a general sense to compounds of a metal and a halogen, as sodium chloride, NaCl; and to compounds formed by the union of an acid and a base, nitrate of silver AgNO3. In its fuller signification the term suggests a compound which can suffer rapid double decomposition with another soluble substance, as when solutions of chloride of sodium and nitrate of silver are mixed together they at once decompose each other and form chloride of silver and nitrate of sodium. By an extension of meaning the name is sometimes applied to compounds, as chloride of ethyl, acetate of ethyl, and even to fats, as stearin, tristearate of glycerin. Popularly and medicinally the term salts refers to Epsom and Rochelle salts. Salt as a commercial product is a very important industry in the United States. As early as 1620 the Jamestown colonists of Virginia established salt works at Cape ape Charles. Rock salt is abundant in West Virginia and Louisiana, and salt "licks" and springs are found in nearly all the States and Territories. The springs of southern Illinois were worked by the French and Indians in 1720. The Kentucky salt springs were known and used before 1790. Salt production in the United States, (1918) 7,238,744 short tons, valued at $26,940,361. The principal salt-producing states are New York, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio and California.
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Salt Cake
sulphate of soda, in its prepared form, for the use of glass blowers and soap manufacturers.
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Salt Lick
a knob lick; a place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; sometimes near salt springs.
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Salt Marsh
land under pasture grasses or herbage plants, near the sea, and liable to be overflowed by it, or by the waters of estuaries, and in consequence more or less impregnated with salt.
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Salt Range
a mountain system in the Punjab, India, consisting of two main chains which run E. and W., and embrace between them an elevated table-land. It begins on the S. side of the Jhelum, runs W. to the Indus, and varies from 3,200 to 5,000 feet in height. Its appearance is exceedingly bleak and barren, but not without much savage grandeur. The system gets its name from the inexhaustible beds of rock salt that occur on the edges of the plateau. About 60,000 tons are extracted annually, four-fifths from the Mayo mines, a few miles N. E. of Pind Dadan Khan. Coal and other minerals also occur.
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Salt River
a river in Kentucky, formed of three branches, the Rolling Fork, East Fork, and Beech river. It is in the N. part of the State and joins the Ohio 19 miles S. W. of Louisville. The first and third branches unite about 11 miles N. E. of Elizabethtown. The source of the East Fork, or Salt river proper, is in Boyle co., and its course is N. through Mercer co., turning to the W. in Spencer co., and continuing through Bullitt co. in the same direction, uniting with Rolling Fork or Salt river 9 miles to the S. W. of Shepherdsville. The main river flows into the Ohio river at West Point, about 10 miles from the juncture of Rolling and East Forks. It is more than 100 miles long. Another Salt river is in northeastern Missouri, formed of three branches or forks, called North, Middle, and South Forks. The North Fork is the main river; its source is in Schuyler co. and its course is S. by S. E. until it reaches Monroe co., where it turns toward the E., then traverses Ralls co., and in Pike co. flows into the Mississippi 2 miles above the border of Louisiana. The source of Middle Fork is in Macon co., and it flows S., entering Salt river, the main fork, at Florida. The South Fork flows N., intersecting Audrain co., and unites with the Middle Fork 3 miles S. W. of Florida. This Salt river is 200 miles long.
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Salta
a province of the Argentine Republic, touching Chile and Bolivia, and nearly inclosing the province of Jujuy. Minerals are abundant, but have been neglected for agriculture and cattle-raising. Salta is watered by the Salado, San Francisco, and Bermejo; area, 48,302 square miles. Pop. (1919) 150,796.
the capital, on the Rio Arias, 535 miles N. by W. of Córdoba, was founded in 1582; it is the seat of an archbishop, and has a seminary for priests, a national college, and a normal school for girls. Pop. (1918) 28,436.
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Saltillo
capital of the Mexican State of Coahuila; 237 miles S. W. of Laredo, Texas, and 400 N. by W. of Mexico City. It contains several convents, a small fort, a bull ring, a number of cotton factories and pulque distilleries. Pop. about 35,000.
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