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Examples of desalt in a Sentence
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Over the past two decades, the vessel’s hull has been excavated, disassembled, dissected, catalogued, desalted, bathed and freeze-dried for preservation.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
But desalination is also a significant water source for U.S. coastal areas, which produce 11.2 percent of the world’s desalted H2O.
Back in the 1930s, the first desalters boiled seawater to capture freshwater as condensation.
—Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
The city of Camarillo in Ventura County is proposing to desalt water from a local aquifer where supplies have become increasingly saline.
—Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
The top supplier is the $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego County, which opened in 2015 as the nation’s biggest desalting facility.
—Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
This week, the city of Antioch celebrated its place among eight communities selected to receive a share of $44 million in state money for desalting projects.
—Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 — about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district.
—Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017
And a coalition of Bay Area water agencies is considering a much larger brackish desalination plant in Pittsburg, with the potential to desalt water from the Delta and deliver 23,000 acre-feet of water per year.
—Devika G. Bansal, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2017
Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture.
—Matthew Power, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2008
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1904, in the meaning defined above
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“Desalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desalt. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
Kids Definition
desalt
verb
de·salt
(ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt
: to remove salt from (as seawater)
Medical Definition
desalt
transitive verb
de·salt
(ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt
: to remove salt from
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