seawater
seawater
Definition
sea·water (sē′wôt′ər)
noun
the salty water of the ocean
seawater
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- evaporate: NOTE: Its much cheaper to produce sodium chloride ' salt ' by evaporating seawater!
- filter: Cores will be placed in a microcosm mesocosm tank containing filtered seawater, which is recycled, stirred and aerated to maintain ambient conditions.
- use: We use local seawater pumped up through a pipeline on the harbor wall.
- bring: There was an aquarium here in Victorian times - they used to bring the seawater for the tanks up from Brighton on the train!
Preposition: at
- tide: Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide.
Adjective modifier
- artificial: Artificial seawater is fortified with trace elements beneficial to marine organisms.
- clean: Southern Water is bringing cleaner seawater to West Sussex with a £ 3.1 million environmental improvement scheme.
- fresh: Is fresh seawater being allowed through the pipeline into the lagoon to maintain a high level?
- natural: A salinity of 50 % of natural seawater, about 1.7 % is recommended.
- full: The lagoon now appears to be full strength seawater at a salinity of 35 ( ppt ).
- real: Real seawater can be used to fill the aquarium.
Modifies a noun
- droplet: This is the cylinder into which our friends the seawater droplets had been pumped.
- swimming: Children will love the outdoor, seawater swimming pool built onto the rocky foreshore.
- pool: Children will love the outdoor, seawater swimming pool built onto the rocky foreshore.
- intake: Gordon drives Thunderbird 4 down into the depths and quickly locates the seawater intake.
- temperature: The yearly maximum abundance levels proved to be highly correlated with winter seawater temperature.
- flow: The seawater pump is keeping the seawater flow at an absolute rock solid flow rate.
Noun used with modifier
- strength: The lagoon now appears to be full strength seawater at a salinity of 35 ( ppt ).
- surface: I would have liked to have seen a graph or a table for dissolved oxygen concentrations in surface seawater included.
- %: The cell pellet is then washed with Neff's, 75 % seawater, or other solution depending on the ameba.
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