Word: brackishness
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...shorter, stronger stems that do not fall over). The leaning to gigantism was reflected in row upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show" trophy for its tropical rain-forest garden-a miasma of brackish water beneath a Dorothy Lamour-type waterfall bordered by orchids, palms, creeping vines, and a rude-looking plant called Amorphophalliis titannm, which stood 8 ft. high. The Amorphophalliis produces a single 3-ft. blossom resembling a chocolate-covered jack-in-the-pulpit ("the largest flower in the world") once in twelve...
...then, however, important French government leaders had read the story and had no quarrel with it. And though a total ban in Algeria had been anticipated, TIME was told that if the cover portrait were blacked out, the issue could be sold everywhere. The result was a rather brackish-looking cover that quickly sold out at all Paris kiosks...
Under traditional purification methods, salt or brackish water is either heated to a vapor and then condensed, leaving foreign matter behind, or else it is frozen into ice, thereby separating out the brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter Juda, does neither. It is an electrical process that exploits the natural attraction of opposite charges. Ionics uses a 4-ft. stack of 18-by-20-in. plastic membranes, 1/32-in. thick and 1/25-in. apart, between which the brackish water circulates. When voltage is applied across the stack, positively charged ions...
Ionics' specialty is purifying brackish water, which has a maximum of only 10,000 parts of dissolved contaminants per million parts of water. The Ionics system is much more costly in converting sea water, where the contamination rate is 35,000 parts per million...
Enough Water? Ionics' specialization in brackish water makes its purification system particularly suitable for the missile bases. From local deep wells, highly mineralized water will soon be pumped into a dozen desalting units with a daily capacity of 500,000 gallons, enough to supply a town of 5,000. That amount of water is only a drop in the bucket to the U.S. as a whole. But the significance of desalinization research goes beyond its immediate importance to national defense, looks ahead a scant 20 years, when Americans will be using 600 billion gallons of water a day-more...