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[4] [5] [6] The brightness also depended on the concentration of salt in the water. [4] The switchboard built at Her Majesty's Theatre, London in 1897 had a dimmer scale of 0 to 10, whereas gas lighting only had 3 levels. [1] The salt water need to be refilled regularly, the metal electrodes corroded, and the dimmers emitted a strong smell.
Early examples of a rheostat dimmer include a salt water dimmer, a kind of liquid rheostat; the liquid between a movable and fixed contact provided a variable resistance. The closer the contacts to each other, the more voltage was available for the light.
Microorganisms make up about 70% of the marine biomass. [4] A microorganism, or microbe, is a microscopic organism too small to be recognised adequately with the naked eye. In practice, that includes organisms smaller than about 0.1 mm. [12]: 13
When salt is added to the Bunsen burner, it dissociates to give sodium and chloride. The sodium atoms get excited due to photons from the sodium vapour lamp, with electrons excited from 3s to 3p states, absorbing light in the process. The sodium vapour lamp emits light at 589nm, which has precisely the energy to excite an electron of a sodium atom.
In oceanography, a halocline (from Greek hals, halos 'salt' and klinein 'to slope') is a cline, a subtype of chemocline caused by a strong, vertical salinity gradient within a body of water. [1] Because salinity (in concert with temperature ) affects the density of seawater , it can play a role in its vertical stratification .
At 20 °C (68 °F) one liter of water can dissolve about 357 grams of salt, a concentration of 26.3 percent by weight (% w/w). At 100 °C (212 °F) (the boiling temperature of pure water), the amount of salt that can be dissolved in one liter of water increases to about 391 grams, a concentration of 28.1% w/w.
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A sample of encapsulated inments from a close genetic relative of H. salinarum is estimated to be 121 million years old [citation needed]. Oddly, the material had also been recovered previously, but it was so similar to that of the modern descendants that the scientists who examined those earlier samples had mistakenly identified them as such ...