Množina: brines

ETYM AS. bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, from brinnan, brynnan, to burn. Related to Burn.
A strong solution of salt and water used for pickling.
Common name for a solution of sodium chloride (NaCl) in water.
Brines are used extensively in the food-manufacturing industry for canning vegetables, pickling vegetables (sauerkraut manufacture), and curing meat. Industrially, brine is the source from which chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), and sodium carbonate are made.

(1849-1925) Swedish engineer who devised the Brinell hardness test, for measuring the hardness of substances, in 1900.
Brinell was born in Småland and received a technical education in Borås. As chief engineer at an ironworks, he became interested in metallurgy. While studying the internal composition of steel during heating and cooling, he devised the hardness test, which was put on trial at the Paris Exhibition 1900. It is based on the idea that a material's response to a load placed on one small point is related to its ability to deform permanently. Brinell also carried out investigations into the abrasion resistance of selected materials.

Množina: Brinell hardnesses

The hardness of a metal or alloy measured by hydraulically pressing a hard ball under a standard load into the specimen.

Singular of brines is brine.