Examples of desalt in a Sentence
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Over the past two decades, the vessel’s hull has been excavated, disassembled, dissected, catalogued, desalted, bathed and freeze-dried for preservation.
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William Booth,
Washington Post,
11 June 2023
However, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea are so saline that desalting seawater may drive up electricity costs for reverse osmosis.
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IEEE Spectrum,
20 Apr. 2018
The city of Camarillo in Ventura County is proposing to desalt water from a local aquifer where supplies have become increasingly saline.
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Kurtis Alexander,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Mar. 2018
In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 — about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district.
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Devika G. Bansal,
The Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2017
Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture.
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Matthew Power,
WIRED,
21 Apr. 2008
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William Booth,
Washington Post,
11 June 2023
However, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea are so saline that desalting seawater may drive up electricity costs for reverse osmosis.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Apr. 2018
The city of Camarillo in Ventura County is proposing to desalt water from a local aquifer where supplies have become increasingly saline.
—
Kurtis Alexander,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Mar. 2018
In the Bay Area, the Alameda County Water District has one such facility in Newark that has been desalting about 14,000 acre-feet of water annually since 2003 — about 40 percent of the water supplied by the district.
—
Devika G. Bansal,
The Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2017
Coastal cities are investing in desalination plants, but desalting technology is simply too expensive to use for agriculture.
—
Matthew Power,
WIRED,
21 Apr. 2008
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“Desalt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desalt. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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desalt
verb
de·salt
(ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt 
: to remove salt from (as seawater)
Medical Definition
desalt
transitive verb
de·salt
(ˈ)dē-ˈsȯlt
: to remove salt from
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