salinity

In chemistry terms the difference between salinity and alkaline

is that salinity is the concentration of salt in a solution while alkaline is having a pH greater than 7.

As nouns the difference between salinity and alkaline

is that salinity is the quality of being saline while alkaline is an alkaline battery.

As an adjective alkaline is

of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases.

As a noun salinity

is the quality of being saline.

As an adjective thermocompositional is

(physics) describing systems (such as buoyancy) that results from both thermal and compositional (such as salinity) factors.

As nouns the difference between salinity and hypersalinity

is that salinity is the quality of being saline while hypersalinity is abnormally high salinity.

As nouns the difference between salinity and osmoconformer

is that salinity is the quality of being saline while osmoconformer is any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.

As a noun salinity

is the quality of being saline.

As an adverb salinely is

with reference to salinity.

As nouns the difference between salinity and brackishwater

is that salinity is the quality of being saline while brackishwater is water whose salinity falls between that of fresh water and that of seawater.

As nouns the difference between salinity and palaeosalinity

is that salinity is the quality of being saline while palaeosalinity is (countable) the salinity of the seas in the geologic past.

As a noun salinity

is the quality of being saline.

As an adjective hypersaline is

having an abnormally high salinity.