Crossword clues for seawater
seawater
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. The saltwater of a sea or ocean.
WordNet
n. water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" [syn: saltwater, brine] [ant: fresh water]
Wikipedia
Seawater, or salt 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, or 599 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one litre by volume) of seawater has approximately of dissolved salts (predominantly sodium and chloride ions). Average density at the surface is 1.025 kg/ l. Seawater is denser than both fresh water and pure water (density 1.0 kg/l at ) because the dissolved salts increase the mass by a larger proportion than the volume. The freezing point of seawater decreases as salt concentration increases. At typical salinity, it freezes at about . The coldest seawater ever recorded (in a liquid state) was in 2010, in a stream under an Antarctic glacier, and measured . Seawater pH is typically limited to a range between 7.5 and 8.4. However, there is no universally accepted reference pH-scale for seawater and the difference between measurements based on different reference scales may be up to 0.14 units.
Usage examples of "seawater".
Enough modifications had been done to the seawater inlets and vents along the hull of the Archerfish to allow her to bottom-- actually rest her hull on the sea floor--and still run her critical machinery.
Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.
Maia saw buckets of seawater still being drawn to extinguish embers from the fire that had nearly sent the ship down.
Beyond the shore, the ocean was pounding the cofferdam relentlessly, every blow sending seawater shooting at high pressure through a web of cracks.
The last remaining compartment of the Kaliningrad, the second, had imploded from the seawater pressure.
Perhaps this alternation of shallow-water and deeper-water sediments reflects global changes in sea level, as huge underwater eruptions spewed forth enormous quantities of lava along the volcanic midocean ridges, decreasing the volume of the ocean basins and displacing seawater onto the low-lying areas of the land.
Our pumps can handle the inflow of seawater, and emergency crews already have the hole repaired with timbers and plates, but we still appear to be sinking.
A minute passed, and another, the only sound the throb of the pumps pouring seawater into the Water Pit, driving the dye down into the heart of the island and out to sea.
Together, the three planes could douse nearly twelve acres of the surface with the Ulva solution, dropping more than twenty-one thousand gallons of the displaced seawater onto the site in less than a minute.
A spigot entering from the other side provided desalinated seawater for drinking.
Yoke sent her control mesh out over the sullenly floating imipolex cube and turned it back into seawater, complete with an assortment of local diatoms and plankton.
The rowers, thirsty and exhausted, shipped their oars and drank water, rinsed themselves with seawater and sat to eat, wondering whether their prince would put them back on the oars in the cool of the night.
The great crystal portal would be the first to go, unleashing a million gallons of seawater.
Seawater to the rear of the vessel seemed to be churning and bubbling, and a whoosh of water shot out of the end every minute or so.
It was a circular zone of exposed seawater, like a lagoon enclosed by the greater mass of the node.