the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
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the relative proportion of salt in a solution
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Salinity \Sa*lin"i*ty\, n. Salineness. --Carpenter.
IRRI wants to raise the maximum to 15 tonnes by 2010. The institute has made great strides in breeding rice varieties that are resistant to salinity, insect pests and other adverse conditions.
Marginal burning usually is traced to salinity.
"But they've got a terrible salinity problem on a lot of their irrigated land," the analyst said.
The city's critics have argued for years that unchecked diversions eventually will cut the lake to a third its natural size, raise the lake's salinity and threaten brine shrimp and birds that eat the shrimp.
Warm water, calm seas, high nutrient levels, low salinity and rainy periods followed by sunny weather are some of the factors that contribute to red tides.
The soil is often stricken with drought and salinity.
But drought followed the heavy rainfall, increasing the salinity of the lake.