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brine
noun as in salt solution
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At the salt flat, two companies pump out brine from below the surface.
As they had for generations, men stood in the brine, using wooden trowels to rake thick crusts of salt that formed on shallow pools of seawater, and then piled it high to dry into crystals.
Add the cabbage leaves and toss in the brine until well coated.
Calcium, magnesium, sodium, and other salt deposits are found globally on Mars, and previous experiments suggest that brines can easily form in subpolar regions there.
In the past month, it has pumped an average of nearly 1,400 gallons of oil and brine a day out of a cistern it installed there.
Dumping the brine from Point A into Point B is likely to cause lasting ecological damage.
Here, people came to let an old, still-nagging wound soak in cinematic brine.
Along with jungle rot and sea brine, menace hung in the moist air.
I buy a farm-raised free-range turkey that I usually brine before roasting.
The floors and steps are wet and slippery with brine and with the blood of herrings dripping down from one floor to another.
Rub thoroughly with strong brine, or a solution of sal ammoniac dissolved in eight times its weight of water.
Into one arm of the tube containing the brine I now carefully pour pure water.
By fixing my gaze on the ink mark on the glass I also observed that the brine in the opposing tube was rising.
The brine is of greater specific gravity than the pure water; the pressure of the heavier fluid forces the lighter up in the tube.
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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brine, such as: marinade, vinegar, alkali, blue, deep, and drink.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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