What is "brine"

Brine \Brine\, n. [AS. bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr. brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See Burn.]

1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.

2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.

   Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay.
   --Cowper.

3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.

   What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline!
   --Shak.

   Brine fly (Zo["o]l.), a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larv[ae] of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.

   Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.

   Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.

   Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.

   Brine pump (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.

   Brine shrimp, Brine worm (Zo["o]l.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia.

   Brine spring, a spring of salt water.

   Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

Brine \Brine\, v. t.

1. To steep or saturate in brine.

2. To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

Old English bryne "brine," origin unknown; no known cognates beyond Dutch brijn, Flemish brijne.

n. salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. vb. (context transitive English) To preserve food in a salt solution.

v. soak in brine

1. n. water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" [syn: seawater, saltwater] [ant: fresh water]

2. a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling

Warrior Sports, Inc., doing business as Brine, is a sporting goods manufacturer in the United States. It manufactures lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, and field hockey equipment. It markets its products under its own brand as well as In The Crease for goals and goal accessories. The company was founded by W.H. Brine in 1922 as the W.H. Brine Company. It was privately owned by the Brine family and named Brine, Inc. before it was acquired by New Balance on August 4, 2006.

Brine is a solution of salt (usually sodium chloride) in water. In different contexts, brine may refer to salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, or the lower end of solutions used for brining foods) up to about 26% (a typical saturated solution, depending on temperature). Other levels of concentration are called in different names:

It is held that 0 °F (−17.78 °C) was initially set as the zero point in the Fahrenheit temperature scale, as it was the coldest temperature that Daniel G. Fahrenheit could reliably reproduce by freezing brine.

Brine is water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.

Brine can also refer to:

• Brining, treating something with or steeping something in brine
• Brine (food), salt water solution used for brining and salting of food
• Brine (hydrology), a category of saltwater
• Brine (refrigerant)
• Brine (brand), a sporting goods manufacturer
• Brine lake, bodies of water at or near salt saturation
• Brine Lacrosse, mobile game
• Brine pool, areas of brine on the ocean basin
• Brine shrimp, the Artemia genus
• Brine (surname)

In hydrology, brine is a form of salt water, namely, water with relatively high concentration of salt (usually sodium chloride).

The brine cropping out at the surface as saltwater springs are known as "licks" or "salines". The contents of dissolved solids in groundwater vary highly from one location to another on Earth, both in terms of specific constituents (e.g. halite, anhydrite, carbonates, gypsum, fluoride-salts, organic halides, and sulfate-salts) and regarding the concentration level. Using one of several classification of groundwater based on Total Dissolved Solids, brine is water containing more than 100,000 mg/L TDS. Brine is commonly produced during well completion operations, particularly after the hydraulic fracturing of a well.

Brine is a mixture of water and salt used to preserve or season vegetables, fruit, fish and meat in a process known as brining (a variant of pickling). In this case the clear brine may be flavored with spices, caramel, vinegar, etc.

In Russian cuisine the leftover brine (culinary brine is called rassol in Russian) has a number of culinary uses, especially for cooking traditional soups, such as shchi, rassolnik, and solyanka. Rassol, especially cucumber rassol, or sauerkraut rassol, is also a favorite traditional remedy against morning hangover.

Brine is also commonly used to age brined cheeses, such as halloumi and feta, see also " cheese brining".

Brine is a common fluid used as a secondary refrigerant in large refrigeration installations for the transport of thermal energy from place to place. Being inexpensive, most common refrigerant brines are based on calcium chloride, sodium chloride and glycols. It is used because the addition of salt to water lowers the freezing temperature of the solution and the heat transport efficiency can be greatly enhanced for the comparatively low cost of the material. The lowest freezing point obtainable for NaCl brine is −21.1 °C (−6.0 °F) at 23.3wt% NaCl. This is called the eutectic point.

Sodium chloride brine spray is used on some fishing vessels to freeze fish. The brine temperature is generally . Air blast freezing temperatures are or lower. Given the higher temperature of brine, the system efficiency over air blast freezing can be higher. High value fish usually are frozen at much lower temperatures, below the practical temperature limit for brine.

Because of the corrosive properties of salt-based brines, glycols such as polyethylene glycol, have become common for this purpose.

This surname Brine may have the following origins. The first is that it is a variant of Bryan. The second is that it is a variant of Browne. However, other sources suggest it's from the Anglo-Saxon word bryne meaning "burning".

The surname may refer to:

• Augustus Brine (1769–1840), English naval officer
• Beverly Brine (b. 1961), Canadian politician
• Cyril Brine (1914–1988), English speedway racer
• David Brine (b. 1985), Canadian ice hockey player
• James Brine (d. 1902), one of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
• John Brine (1703–1765), English Baptist minister
• George Brine, the namesake of the George Brine House
• Salty Brine (1918–2004), Walter L. Brine Jr., American broadcaster
• Steve Brine (b. 1974), British politician