seawater
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tər, -ˌwɒt noun
the salt water in or from the sea.
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| seawater (sē'wô'tər) Pronunciation Key
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. |
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Seawater
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
Warm seawater, taken from close to the surface, is pumped so that it trickles down these units.
Drinking too much seawater can cause violent episodes of diarrhea and vomiting in dogs.
The pumping of seawater into the boiling-water reactor design will cause more problems even if the cool down is successful.
There, nutrients and contaminants that have dissolved in freshwater encounter the ionized salts of seawater.
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