Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 35 ppt, 600 mM)...

form or in solution (saline water, including brine, brackish water, or seawater). Salt poisoning sufficient to produce severe symptoms is rare, and lethal...

one wishes to measure the pH of a seawater sample, the electrode should be calibrated in a solution resembling seawater in its chemical composition. The...

submerged long enough in seawater, having acted as a membrane to filter the salt. At the same time the desalination of seawater was recorded in China. Both...

A seawater greenhouse is a greenhouse structure that enables the growth of crops and the production of fresh water in arid regions. Arid regions constitute...

times, to almost five significant digits. A bottled seawater product known as IAPSO Standard Seawater is used by oceanographers to standardize their measurements...

Crop tolerance to seawater is the ability of an agricultural crop to withstand the high salinity induced by irrigation with seawater, or a mixture of fresh...

of seawater uranium extraction, it was suggested that it would be economically competitive to produce fuel for light water reactors from seawater if the...

Artificial seawater (abbreviated ASW) is a mixture of dissolved mineral salts (and sometimes vitamins) that simulates seawater. Artificial seawater is primarily...

water cooling, is an alternative cooling system that uses the deep cold seawater as the chilling agent for a closed-loop fresh water distributed cooling...

Arzew IWPP Power & Desalination Plant, Arzew, 90,000m3/day Cap Djinet Seawater Reverse Osmosis 100,000 m3/day Tlemcen Souk Tleta 200,000 m3/day Tlemcen...

drought, state governments began building desalination plants that purify seawater using reverse osmosis technology. Approximately one percent of the world's...

coastal aquifers, owing to the hydraulic connection between groundwater and seawater. Because saline water has a higher mineral content than freshwater, it...

has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuaries...

the sections that document medical experiments revolving around food, seawater, epidemic jaundice, sulfanilamide, blood coagulation and phlegmon. According...

The Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, located in Naval Base, south of Perth, Western Australia, turns seawater from Cockburn Sound into nearly 140 megalitres...

"sweet" water in Mumbai, disease outbreak feared The 2006 Mumbai "sweet" seawater incident was a strange phenomenon during which residents of Mumbai claimed...

of seawater, or about ten times more double-stranded DNA viruses than there are cellular organisms, although estimates of viral abundance in seawater can...

the salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, on the lower end of that of solutions used for brining foods) up to about...

or compounds) which are naturally dissolved in brine. The brine may be seawater, other surface water, groundwater, or hyper-saline solutions from several...

second most abundant cation present in seawater after Na+ , it can be economically extracted directly from seawater by alkalinisation as described here above...

ratio in seawater began to rise and by the Middle Mississippian aragonite seas had replaced calcite seas. The concentration of calcium in seawater is largely...

dense at 3.98 °C (39.16 °F) at standard atmospheric pressure (not true for seawater). Thus as water cools below 3.98 °C it increases in density and will settle...

for normally between 0.3% up to 0.5%. It replaced the load on top and seawater washing systems, both of which involved discharging oil-contaminated water...

potassium-based soap for use with seawater. Inexpensive common commercial soap will not lather or dissolve in seawater due to high levels of sodium chloride...

word "sea" can also be used for many specific, much smaller bodies of seawater, such as the North Sea or the Red Sea. There is no sharp distinction between...

(0.3–1%); and in highly saline water is 10,000 to 35,000 ppm (1–3.5%). Seawater has a salinity of roughly 35,000 ppm, equivalent to 35 grams of salt per...

lowers the pH of the ocean, increasing acidity (this does not mean that seawater is acidic yet; it is still alkaline, with a pH higher than 8). Marine calcifying...

Seawater is pumped into the engine through a seawater pump (impeller type). In the engines equipped with a direct seawater cooling system, seawater is...

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