salinity

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The variation of seawater scattering with the salinity is a combination of two factors: decreasing contribution due to density fluctuation and increasing contribution due to concentration fluctuation, with the latter effect dominating.

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  1. Saline or salty character or quality; degree of saltiness; salineness. It is shown by a glance at the charts that there are areas in the ocean of great salinity and areas of great dilution. Nature, XXX. 314.

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  • The variation of seawater scattering with the salinity is a combination of two factors: decreasing contribution due to density fluctuation and increasing contribution due to concentration fluctuation, with the latter effect dominating. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Enroute to the spots on the nearshore reefs, I mentioned the salinity issue and thought that they might find something different on this trip.
  • The foundation is also using biotechnology to develop crop varieties that can tolerate high salinity, and will soon set up a national resource centre for genes, which will house genetic material of crop varieties resistant to drought, heat, salt and floods. —  SciDev.Net
  • Other than a slight increase in salinity, they've found no pathogens in the soil. —  Food and Farm News
  • Want to know what the salinity is in the Caloosahatchee River?
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  1. = French salinité; as saline + -ity.
 

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