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
What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell is This? is the fourth studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1995 on Epic Records. The album gets its name from a quotation by American wit Dorothy Parker. The album was written primarily while Bergmann was in rehab, recovering from his prior battles with drug addiction. In its year end poll of its newspapers' music critics, Southam Newspapers named the album as one of the ten best albums of 1995, with "London Free Press" critic Ian Gillespie lauding Bergmann as "a Canadian rock genius, doomed to hover around the edges of