Science / Marine Biology / Practical Salinity: See PSU
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Practical Adjective Synonyms: pragmatic,eful,able or useable, functional, realistic, reasonable, sound, utilitarian, applicable, serviceable, empirical, efficient
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Science / Marine Biology / Practical Salinity Units (PSU): A measure of the salt content of seawater (practical salinity), based upon electrical conductivity of a sample relative to a reference standard of sea water, which now happens to be a reference set of MORE
Science / Marine Biology / Salinity: Number of kg of dissolved salts in one kg g of seawater, measured in parts per thousand. Actually this definition stands alongside another definition based upon water standards whose electrical conduc MORE
Science / Tides and Currents / Salinity (S): The total amount of solid material in grams contained in 1 kilogram of sea water when all the carbonate has been converted to oxide, the bromine and iodine replaced by chlorine, and all organic matter MORE
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Business / Agriculture / Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program: This program was authorized in the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act and was repealed and replaced by the Environmental Quality Incentives Program in the FAIR Act of 1996. Administered by the MORE
Science / Marine Biology / Critical Salinity: A salinity of approximately 5 to 8% that marks a minimum of species richness in an estuarine system MORE