saltness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saltness
before 900; Middle English saltnesse; Old English sealtnes. See salt 1, -ness
Example Sentences
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In one or two instances the sense of saltness comes before us as a known quality, and in such case I have taken the names elsewhere.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
Hardly: evaporation is probably the true secret of its disappearance: and that this is the reason is proved by the greater saltness of the Mediterranean as compared with the Atlantic.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
It has puzzled philosophers to account for the saltness of the sea.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
The Sea.—Sea-water owes its saltness to the presence of various more or less soluble substances, such as common salt, gypsum, Epsom salts, chloride of magnesium, &c.
From Geology by Geikie, James
But when boiled they get rid of all, or at all events of most, of their saltness, which they infuse into the water which boils them.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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