Brine

Brine is water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. It is used (now less popular than historically) to preserve vegetables, fish, and meat.

Related Topics:
Water - Salt - Vegetable - Fish - Meat

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Brine lakes, like the Dead Sea, develop as a result of high evaporation rates in a desert climate and lack of an outlet to the ocean. The salt in these bodies of water comes from either minerals washed out of the surrounding watershed or from a geologically old, previous connection to the ocean. Another example is the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Related Topics:
Dead Sea - Desert - Great Salt Lake - Utah

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In other locations a body of water abutting the sea may have a salinity between that of sea and fresh water. This is sometimes described as brackish. An example is the Etang de Vaccares and surrounding waters in the Camargue.

Related Topics:
''brackish'' - Camargue

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Man-made brine ponds, usually located along an ocean shore, are a source of commercial table salt, which is obtained by evaporating and purifying seawater. Commercial table salt is also obtained by way of a salt mine.

Related Topics:
Table salt - Salt mine

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A town in England famous for its abundance of saturated brine is Droitwich Spa.

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One of the largest reserves in the world of Bromine, a derivative of Brine, is located under Columbia and Union County Arkansas.

Related Topics:
Bromine - Union County - Arkansas

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