saltness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of saltness
before 900; Middle English saltnesse; Old English sealtnes. See salt 1, -ness
Example Sentences
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The saltness and humidity of such locations seem peculiarly favorable to its greatest perfection.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
But in the following the quality of saltness comes before us as a known characteristic.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
The current was in our favour, which with the saltness of the water, inclined me to think it a channel, and not the mouth of a river.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
It seems a childish remark to make, that all salts do not coincide in their saltness, nor sugars in their sweetness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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 James Geikie
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