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FOR sixty years oceanographers have accepted and used Knudsen's1 relationship defining salinity in terms of the chlorinity of sea-water. The validity of this relationship has several times been questioned, for example by Carritt and Carpenter2. These doubts have been strengthened by the work of Cox, Culkin, Greenhalgh and Riley3.
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Knudsen, M., Forch, C., and Sørensen, S. P. L., Meeresuntersuchungen, Kommiss. zur wiss. Untersuchung der deutschen Meere in Kiel, N.F., 6, 123 (Kiel, 1962).
Carritt, D. E., and Carpenter, J. H., U.S. Nat. Acad. Sci., Washington, Pub. No. 600, Physical and Chemical Properties of Sea Water, 67 (1959).
Cox, R. A., Culkin, F., Greenhalgh, R., and Riley, J. P., Nature, 193, 518 (1962).
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Cox, R. Definition of the ‘Salinity’ of Sea-water. Nature 197, 785–786 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197785b0
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