Talk:Brine

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The article says:

Sea water, particularly that of the Dead Sea, is often regarded as brine.

Why is sea water only "often" and not always "regarded as brine"? Is typical sea water not salty enough to be considered brine?

The Salinity article indicates brine is a saturated salt solution where salt will preciptitate back out of solution. Water with less than saturated salt concentrations might not be considered brine. Typical salt water is only about 3.5% salt, where this article is talking of 20+% salt solutions. 139.70.10.66 16:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

It is in parts per thousand percent, or 0/00. It's confusing and it's measured a different way in each article, but it is correct. If anyone wants to they can go through and change each of the four articles to show the same standard of measurement. 70.105.131.19 23:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Bromine 2 Meats 3 Other term "Brine Lakes" or "Brine Pools" 4 Food Production 5 Other Uses

[edit] Bromine

The bromine association seems a bit tenuous to me CustardJack 07:14, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

To me as well, I removed it. Alureiter 13:38, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Meats

I would like to see some discussion where 'brine' is associated with meats, i.e., like to brine chicken. What is the benefit of this type of processing and are we taking away the health benefit by doing so.

The benefit is that the meat doesn't rot and spoil. It can stay good without refridgeration or other preservation methods (canning, drying). This was especially important before the technological advances of electricity and fast shipping. It does not have as many nutrients as fresh, but better than the alternative (no food). See Also: Brining, corning or pickling... there should probably be only one page for that process... different terms, same thing. Utopienne 17:02, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other term "Brine Lakes" or "Brine Pools"

Remove extraneous references to brackish water and brine lakes. Added Also See links to replace the information.

[edit] Food Production

In an episode of How It's Made, they show iced lollies being made; the moulds go through a brine bath, to freeze them. I think this could be mentioned in the article. KingDaveRa (talk) 16:34, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other Uses

In the section for 'Other Uses' there is an entry for Oil extraction that reads:

"Oil extraction Brine is used in the offshore oil and gas industry where a pipeline, prior to commissioning, is flooded with a meg/brine mix to prevent the formation of hydrates on production start-up. This is dependent on the well properties."

The term "meg/brine" needs to be defined.

Oosterwal (talk) 17:54, 5 May 2008 (UTC)