saline water
Sea's liquid composition
Saline water is water containing dissolved salt, especially sodium chloride.
The term covers everything from mildly brackish water to the ocean itself.
The aquifer contains saline water unfit for drinking.
In medical contexts, saline refers to a sterile salt solution used for IV fluids and wound cleaning.
- brineWater saturated with sodium
- haloclineSharp saltiness change layer
- salt lakesEnclosed waters with dissolved minerals
- osmoregulationMaintaining internal solute balance
- mineral contentElements present in substance
salt marshes · ocean · ocean spray · hypersaline · reverse osmosis · sea · sea breeze · salt flats · aquarium · coral · marsh · tidal pools · sodium · tidal · waves · buoyancy · chloride · tears
- Great Salt Lakesalt lake, brine shrimp, salt flats, hypersaline, Jordan River
- saltsea salt, table salt, rock salt, kosher salt, fine salt
- water resourcesfreshwater, aquifers, aquifer, watersheds, groundwater
- undrinkableraw sewage, industrial waste, chemical runoff, bleach, gasoline
- Healing Watershealing spring, mineral spring, hot spring, thermal spring, thermal bath
- desert wateroases, wadi, wadis, wells, springs
salt content
saline waterfreshwater
Non-saline aquatic environment
fresh water · potable water · drinking water · distilled water · pure water
water, salted, saltwater, unsalted, saline, saltiness, saltine, salinity, desalinate