Brine Brine is used for food processing and cooking (pickling and brining), for de-icing of roads and other structures, and in a number of technological processes. It is also a by-product of many industrial processes, such as desalination, and may pose an environmental risk due to its corrosive and toxic effects, so it requires wastewater treatment for proper disposal. Saline water with relatively high concentration of salt (usually sodium chloride) occurs naturally on Earth's surface (salt lakes), crust, and within brine pools on ocean bottom. Numerous processes exist which can produce brines in nature. Modification of seawater via evaporation results in
Brine shrimp salt water to hatch under optimum conditions. As a result, a high sensitivity to cosmic radiation was observed on "Artemia salina" eggs; 90% of the embryos, which were induced to develop from hit eggs, died at different developmental stages. Brine shrimp Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp. "Artemia", the only genus in the family Artemiidae, has changed little externally since the Triassic period. The first historical record of the existence of "Artemia" dates back to the first half of the 10th century AD from Urmia Lake, Iran, with an example called by an Iranian