salt vs salting

salt and salting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
salt	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
salting	Yes	No	No	No

salt (noun)	salting (noun)
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth	the act of adding salt to food
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

salt (adjective)	salting (adjective)
(of speech) painful or bitter