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water that learned to fight back, preserving and pickling everything it touches
means Brine is water heavily saturated with salt, used to preserve, pickle, or season food — and the name for the salty sea itself.
from From Old English 'bryne,' meaning salt water or sea, with cousins across the West Germanic family — Dutch 'brijn' and Middle Low German 'brine' carry the same salty sense. Its deeper roots are murky, lost somewhere in the old North Sea languages, but the word has meant 'sharp, biting salt water' for as long as English has been written down.
- density trick
- Denser than seawater, it pools in deadly seafloor lakes
- ancient hack
- Egyptians used salt brine to mummify the dead
- freeze fighter
- Sprayed on roads to stop ice from forming
- juicier birds
- Brining locks moisture into turkey before roasting
- brine pools
- Fish that swim in undersea brine die instantly
dead sea — saltiest body of water on earth at 34.2% salinity, israel-jordan border
don juan pond — hypersaline lake in antarctica with 40% salinity, never freezes despite -50°c temperatures
lake urmia — second largest hypersaline lake globally at 30% salinity, northwestern iran