Crossword clues for desalt
desalt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
desalt \desalt\ v. to remove the salt from (a solution of salt).
Note: This term is used in a more general sense than desalinate, which usually refers to the removal of common salt (sodium chloride) from a water solution, such as sea water. Desalt is commonly used to refer to any laboratory or industrial process in which any salt may be removed from a mixture of substances dssolved in a solvent, usually water. It is thus used as a method of purification in chemical processes. The methods for desalting are very varied.
Syn: desalinate, desalinize.
Wiktionary
vb. To remove salt from; to desalinate, as of sea water.
WordNet
v. remove salt from; "desalinate water" [syn: desalinate, desalinize, desalinise] [ant: salinate]
Usage examples of "desalt".
It saves the invader the large amounts of extra energy needed to desalt sea water in his transmutation or converting process.
Hydrogen Economy concept envisions nuclear power plants that simultaneously desalt water for drinking and electrolyze water for its hydrogen-oxygen fuel content.
By the time he had lugged the boy a good distance down the shore and cleaned him off-first using the salty water, and then using some desalted water that left him with a headache-and returned, Ayrlyn had biscuits and cheese laid out for them.
West Coast on atomically desalted water, he had never lacked for anything.
Rather than try to improve on the existing methods of desalting, I wanted to deal with it at a molecular or even nuclear level.
In the downstairs study Francesca and Gamay discussed how to put the desalting project back on track as quickly as possible.
The desalting process involves a complex molecular metamorphosis that works only in the presence of a rare substance.
Eventually I will build desalting plants using the Cabral process, but I alone will control their output.
As you know, there have been three main methods of desalting before this.
All require tremendous expenditures of energy that made the cost of desalting prohibitive.
The upper ends of the machines received apparently endless supplies of sand and cement from stock piles previously built up and of water pumped up from one of the big desalting units at the edge of the lagoon.
Ways to conserve and reuse water, together with economical desalting of sea water, will be essential in the decades ahead.
By the time he had lugged the boy a good distance down the shore and cleaned him offfirst using the salty water, and then using some desalted water that left him with a headacheand returned, Ayrlyn had biscuits and cheese laid out for them.
Seawater can be desalted and piped a thousand kilometers inland, if necessary.
I suppose you could think of some excuse for a simple desalter, but this one is big enough for a city, it seems to me, and surely wouldn’t be floating free.