Phenomena

Brine rejection

Oceanography

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Earth and Environment Atlas. "Brine rejection." Accessed September 9, 2026. https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/phenomena/brine-rejection.

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Earth and Environment Atlas. (n.d.). Brine rejection. Retrieved September 9, 2026, from https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/phenomena/brine-rejection

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@misc{earthandenvironmentatlas-brine-rejection,
  author = {Earth and Environment Atlas},
  title = {Brine rejection},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://earth.interactiveatlas.org/phenomena/brine-rejection},
  note = {Accessed September 9, 2026}
}

Brine rejection is a process that occurs when salty water freezes: the salts do not fit into the crystal structure of water ice, so they are expelled from the forming ice.

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