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  2. Brinicle - Wikipedia

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    When water freezes, most impurities are excluded from the water crystals; even ice from seawater is relatively fresh compared to the seawater from which it is formed. As a result of forcing the impurities out (such as salt and other ions) sea ice is very porous and spongelike, quite different from the solid ice produced when fresh water freezes.

  3. Underwater explosion - Wikipedia

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    These two together make water an excellent conductor of shock waves from an explosion. Effect of neutron exposure on salt water (nuclear explosions only) – most underwater blast scenarios happen in seawater, not fresh or pure water. The water itself is not much affected by neutrons but salt is strongly affected.

  4. Brine rejection - Wikipedia

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    Brine rejection is a process that occurs when salty water freezes. The salts do not fit in the crystal structure of water ice, so the salt is expelled. Since the oceans are salty, this process is important in nature. Salt rejected by the forming sea ice drains into the surrounding seawater, creating saltier, denser brine.

  5. Why salt melts ice — and how to use it on your sidewalk - AOL

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    A chemistry professor explains the science that makes salt a cheap and efficient way to lower freezing temperature. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...

  6. Cloud condensation nuclei - Wikipedia

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    There are many different types of atmospheric particulates that can act as CCN. The particles may be composed of dust or clay, soot or black carbon from grassland or forest fires, sea salt from ocean wave spray, soot from factory smokestacks or internal combustion engines, sulfate from volcanic activity, phytoplankton or the oxidation of sulfur dioxide and secondary organic matter formed by ...

  7. Salt deformation - Wikipedia

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    When comparing the tensional and compressional strength of wet salt and dry salt with other typical rocks at a strain rate of 10 −14 s −1, such as shale and quartzite, both wet and dry salt shows lower strength than the other rocks. [10] Wet salt is even weaker than dry salt: when the water content of rock salt exceeds 0.01%, the rock salt ...

  8. Seawater - Wikipedia

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    Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 35 ppt, 600 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one liter by volume) of seawater has approximately 35 grams (1.2 oz) of dissolved salts (predominantly sodium (Na +

  9. Ice - Wikipedia

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    An ice surface in fresh water melts solely by free convection with a rate that depends linearly on the water temperature, T ∞, when T ∞ is less than 3.98 °C, and superlinearly when T ∞ is equal to or greater than 3.98 °C, with the rate being proportional to (T ∞ − 3.98 °C) α, with α = ⁠ 5 / 3 ⁠ for T ∞ much greater than 8 ...