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Under shallow burial conditions, residual seawater trapped in the sediment continues to form dolomite at medium-high temperatures.—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 Many of those homes had been built on wetlands that once served as a buffer against rising seawater.—James Barron, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 Scientists at Northwestern University grew this stuff out of seawater, electricity and CO2.—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 Mar. 2025 The tech can also remove CO2 from seawater and make calcium carbonate as a byproduct.—Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seawater
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First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of seawater was
before the 12th century
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