Word: saltier
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...saltier of the Oslofjord's visitors were interested by her duplex bridge, with all the essential instruments of the enclosed lower portion duplicated on a hurricane bridge above. On the bridge no great spoked wheel governs the Oslofjord's, helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...
...then into the left cavities of the heart, and adulterates the blood. Before the heart can pump the altered blood through the system and back to the right heart cavities, the individual is dead, the heart stopped. If the person drowns in salt water the left heart blood is saltier than the right heart blood. Since blood is salty to begin with, the opposite is true for drownings in fresh water...