Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers.
Defn: Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid.
If so, their preservation is probably due to thesaltness of the waters of this marsh, for salt is a good preservative.
There is water of a certain saltness in the sea; well, fill your tank with sea water, and keep it at that saltness by marking the height at which the water stands on the sides.
You will require to add fresh water now and then, in order to keep it at the same degree of saltness as the sea.
The saltness of the sea rendering it more dense, necessarily renders it more buoyant, than fresh water.
Heat inclines the Gulf Stream to rise; saltness inclines it to sink.
The only disadvantage to commerce in the saltness of the sea is the consequent unfitness of its water for drinking.
Thus very salt water, coming in contact with fresh, communicates its saltness till all is equal, and the sooner if there is a little motion of the water.
Its saltness increases its density and its buoyancy.
The saltness of the sea is generally greater towards the poles, but to this statement there are exceptions.
To ascertain the saltness of the water, we had, in addition to the ordinary areometers, an electric apparatus specially constructed by Mr. Thornöe.
Efforts have been made from time to time to reclaim and utilise portions of the marisma by draining the water to the river; but failure has invariably resulted for the following reasons: (1) The intense saltness of the soil.
Plant-life in the marismas is regulated by the relativesaltness of the soil.
Here trap-rock still predominates, and the soil is good and appears well cultivated, but there is a saltness in the surface water which renders it at some seasons unfit for use.
Here the water was slightly brackish but still very good for use; the saltness being most perceptible when the water was used for tea.
Saltness of the water combined with the drying up of the shores by winds, 604.
Salina by diminishing the saltness of the water, have been made by Schmankewitsch (Zeitschrift f.
Now this saltness cannot in itself be the cause of the degeneration to the perennibranchiate form, but it may well be so in combination with other pecularities of the lake.
The saltness of the fluid he was moreover painfully conscious of by the smarting of the places on his wrists and ankles where the cords had been bound that fastened him to the camel.
He was, however, unaware that saltness adds to the weight of water, and so to the buoyancy of objects cast into it.
But women with a dropsy could not be said to have the womb fallen down, if it came only from looseness; but in them it is caused by the saltness of the water, which dries more than it moistens.
The old people appeared remarkably well preserved, as if by the saltness of the atmosphere, and after having once mistaken, we could never be certain whether we were talking to a coeval of our grandparents, or to one of our own age.
My readers must expect only so much saltness as the land breeze acquires from blowing over an arm of the sea, or is tasted on the windows and the bark of trees twenty miles inland, after September gales.
But notwithstanding that it was very cold and windy to-day, it was such a cold as we thought would not cause one to take cold who was exposed to it, owing to the saltness of the air and the dryness of the soil.
The perfect salt is produced by the coalescence of the saltness of the acid with the saltness of the alkali.
There are, however, salt blocks of ice, which are distinguished from fresh-water ice by their opaqueness and their dazzling white colour: this saltness is due to the sea water retained in its interstices.
The saltnessof sea water increases its density, and at the same time its buoyancy, thus adapting it for bearing ships and other burdens on its bosom; moreover, to abbreviate slightly Dr.
The saltness of this interior sea is only half as intense as that of the ocean.
Hence, to understand the dynamics of the ocean, it is necessary to study the effects of their saltness upon the equilibrium of the waves.
The saltnessof sea water makes it more fitted to float ships, because its density is increased by the salts which are dissolved in it.
But the saltness of the sea varies very much under the influence of a great many local circumstances, among which we must count principally currents, winds favourable to evaporation, rivers coming from the continents, &c.
The saltness of the sea seems to be generally less towards the poles than the equator; but there are exceptions to this law.
There is water of a certain saltness in the sea; well, fill your tank with sea-water, and keep it at that saltness by marking the height at which the water stands on the sides.
A hope naturally arose to our minds, that if it was unchanged in other respects, it might have lost the saltness that rendered its waters unfit for use; but in this we were disappointed-even its waters continued the same.
Almost everyone is acquainted with the saltness while many bathers have noticed the superior buoyancy of salt water as compared with the fresh water of our rivers and lakes.
The Playboy of the Western World is a study of character, terrible in its clarity, but never losing the savour of imagination and of the astringency and saltness that was characteristic of his temper.
There is not a poem in Anglo-Saxon but breathes the saltness and the bitterness of the sea-air.
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