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What is the difference between salt water and saline water ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between salt water and saline water ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
I guess salt water is a general term and saline water is a more technical term that isn't usually used. Is that correct?
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Salt water is either ocean water or water you added salt to.
Saline is a more precise and (usually) sterile water used for eye care and medicine.
So all saline is salt water but not all salt water is saline.
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Salt water is either ocean water or water you added salt to.
Saline is a more precise and (usually) sterile water used for eye care and medicine.
So all saline is salt water but not all salt water is saline.
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Saline is (usually without water) in a medical context to mean water with a concentration of salt (sodium chloride) that can be used to wash wounds or aument blood volume without damage.
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