salten

comparative more salten · superlative most salten

1. raresalted; salty

   a salten marsh

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   Rumored as early as 1688, when Baron Lahontan told of a salten sea 300 leagues in circumference, and reported but unseen by Escalante, the Great Salt Lake became the region's chief distinguishing feature.

   1984, Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A History - Page 14

   "Discovered by my old friend Jedediah Smith. One beaver season he come down out of the mountains and saw this marsh land with reeds twenty feet high. ... But o' course it was a great big salten lake. Captain Stansbury went all around it.

   1991, Lance Williams, Tillman S. Boxell, Arnold Sundgaard, Promised Valley: The Novel - Page 196

   The pseudo-centrosymmetric electronic environment of the [Feᴵᴵᴵ(salten)] core and the absence of strong donor acceptor character on the salten fragment leads to the suggestion (eventually verified by ZINDO) that the metal center is not involved in the dominant charge transfer process, which is located on the DEAS and mepepy moieties.

   2011, G. Maroulis, T. Bancewicz, B. Champagne, Atomic and Molecular Nonlinear Optics

present singular third person saltens · participle present saltening · participle past saltened · past saltened

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become salty or salted

   It might, however, give more credit to the thermohaline structure in the Atlantic: the large influx of thermocline water saltens the surface layer, while a fresh subsurface layer might be generated by the salt export at intermediate depths.

   1999, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 29, page 2278

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   As Hitler raged on for one hour and thirteen minutes, an ever-increasing number of women and girls burst into tears, some of which saltened the beer mugs that had been lubricating their laughter a few minutes ago, before Festival officials turned on the loudspeakers.

   2014, Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground