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Trying to pull lithium from seawater is like trying to find a single grain of sugar in a desert of salt.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
Then, the girl who wouldn’t touch the frigid seawater at the Allas sea pool in Helsinki waded into the swimming hole.
—Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
The device, which clamps onto the line just above the hook and pairs zinc and graphite in seawater, creates a small electric field about the size of a beachball around the hook, and rattles approaching sharks.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
An initiative called Real Ice is trying to pump seawater atop Arctic sea ice to thicken it.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
Then, the girl who wouldn’t touch the frigid seawater at the Allas sea pool in Helsinki waded into the swimming hole.
—Boris Fishman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
The device, which clamps onto the line just above the hook and pairs zinc and graphite in seawater, creates a small electric field about the size of a beachball around the hook, and rattles approaching sharks.
—Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
An initiative called Real Ice is trying to pump seawater atop Arctic sea ice to thicken it.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
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“Seawater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seawater. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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seawater
noun
sea·wa·ter
ˈsē-ˌwȯt-ər 
-ˌwät-
: water in or from the sea
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