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earth's oldest tears, recycling every river back into the sky on repeat
means Water containing dissolved salt, especially the kind that fills the oceans and seas.
from A plain compound of two ancient English words. 'Salt' descends from Old English 'sealt', part of a vast family of Germanic and Latin salt-words (Latin 'sal', source of 'salary' — Roman soldiers were said to be paid in or for salt). 'Water' comes from Old English 'wæter', a cousin of German 'Wasser' and rooted in the same Proto-Indo-European source that gave Greek 'hydor'. Bolted together, the word does exactly what it says — salt plus water — and has done so for as long as English has needed to tell the sea from the river.
- salt source
- rivers steadily dissolving rocks for billions of years
- freezing point
- stays liquid below water's normal 0 celsius
- in your veins
- blood's salinity echoes ancient ocean chemistry
- undrinkable
- drinking it dehydrates you faster than nothing
- buoyancy
- denser than fresh, so you float higher
dead sea — saltiest body of water on earth at 34.2% salinity, between israel and jordan
don juan pond — most saline lake in antarctica with 44% salinity, located in victoria valley
red sea — major saltwater body between africa and asia with average salinity of 40 ppt