as in sea
the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three-fourths of the earth
for hundreds of years people from Atlantic Canada have made their living from the brine
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Between the lines: Vema plans to drill shallow wells and inject brine containing catalysts.
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Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
Pour brine over onions: Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
The brine pools were found 4,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Aqaba, where the water is estimated to be up to 10 times saltier than normal seawater and a lack of oxygen causes the pools to kill or stun all marine life that enters it, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
—Christina Shaw, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2025
But, similar to lithium, rubidium exists in much higher concentrations in chunks of a rock called pegmatite than in brine water, says Brent Elliott, an economic geologist at the University of Texas at Austin who was not involved in the research.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2025
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Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
Pour brine over onions: Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
The brine pools were found 4,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Aqaba, where the water is estimated to be up to 10 times saltier than normal seawater and a lack of oxygen causes the pools to kill or stun all marine life that enters it, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
—Christina Shaw, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2025
But, similar to lithium, rubidium exists in much higher concentrations in chunks of a rock called pegmatite than in brine water, says Brent Elliott, an economic geologist at the University of Texas at Austin who was not involved in the research.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Brine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brine. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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