brine

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He explained that the brine is activated and can begin to melt snow and ice more quickly than an application of salt alone.

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  1. noun Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride.
  2. noun The water of a sea or an ocean.
  3. noun A large body of salt water.

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  • The brine, which is eight times saltier than seawater, would be gradually replaced with rainfall runoff from the lower reaches of the Coorong, rain, hopefully, and seawater from the northern part of the Coorong, Paton said. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • He explained that the brine is activated and can begin to melt snow and ice more quickly than an application of salt alone. —  Home News Tribune - News
  • These were referred to in detail, and the question was started as to possible legal complications arising hereafter from new bore holes put down in close proximity to the dividing line of different properties, the pumping of brine formed under the conditions described presenting an altogether different aspect from the pumping of water or natural brine The second part of the paper referred to the uses to which the brine was applied, the chief one being the manufacture of common salt. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887
  • The vapour draws the heat from the brine, and the brine, which is kept moving constantly, in turn extracts the heat from the distilled water in the cans. —  Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
  • Q._--Have no means been devised for turning to account the heat contained in the brine which is expelled from the boiler A._--To save a part of the heat lost by the operation of blowing off, the hot brine is sometimes passed through a number of small tubes surrounded by the feed water; but there is no very great gain from the use of such apparatus, and the tubes are apt to become choked up, whereby the safety of the boiler may be endangered by the injurious concentration of its contents. —  A Catechism of the Steam Engine
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English brīne.

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  1. = Scots (irreg.) brime, from Middle English brine, bryne, from Anglo-Saxon bryne (= Middle Dutch brijn), brine, salt liquor; a particular use of bryne (early Middle English brune = Icelandic bruni), a burning, from brinnan, burn: see brin, burn.
  2. from brine, n.
  3. Cf. North. English brim, the forehead; from Middle English bryne, brow, from Icelandic brūn, plural bry¯nn, modern bry¯r, brow, = Swedish Danish bryn, brow: see brow.
  4. English dial.; cf. equivalent dial. brim; apparently corruptions of bring.
 

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