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seawater

[ see-waw-ter, -wot-er ]

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noun

seawater

/ sē′wô′tər /

Salt water, normally with a salinity of 35 parts per thousand (3.5%), in or coming from the sea or ocean. Although seawater contains more than 70 elements, most seawater salts are ions of six major elements: chloride, sodium, sulfate, magnesium, calcium, and potassium. The major sources of these salts are underwater volcanic eruptions, chemical reactions involving volcanic matter, and chemical weathering of rocks on the coasts. Seawater is believed to have had the same salinity for billions of years.

before 1000; Middle English see water, Old English sǣwæter; sea, water

The seawater once covering 26,000 square miles vanishes into desert.

Anguilla is an arid, flat Caribbean island surrounded on all sides by seawater.

In effect, then, the resort is harnessing the power of the sun to turn seawater into a nourishing resource—for people and plants.

And for that, it turned to the one resource it has in abundance—aside from seawater.

Then Hurricane Sandy dumped four feet of dirty seawater into his building.

This could, however, only now be looked upon as lost; for the seawater must have spoilt everything eatable.

His thick, black hair that he had combed straight back with his fingers, dripped seawater on his bronzed, muscular shoulders.

Clothes that are made wet with seawater, which probably has a little sand in it, are as uncomfortable as crumbs in bed.

I'm numb with heat--I can imagine myself thirsty for disaster drinking seawater and thinking there's a spring nearby.

"That's so," said the other sailor, tormented like the other two by thirst, aggravated by his draughts of seawater.

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