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As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, "a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!"
The marine organisms can be used at all concentrations of effluent by adjusting the salinity of the effluent to salinities specified for the appropriate species test condition or to the salinity approximating that of the receiving water, by adding sufficient dry ocean salts, such as FORTY FATHOMS®, or equivalent, GP2, or hypersaline brine.
8 Data from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: static daily-renewal tests, using 25 ppt salinity, FORTY FATHOMS® synthetic seawater.
EMSL-Cincinnati has found FORTY FATHOMS® artificial sea salts suitable for maintaining and spawning the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus, and for its use in the sheepshead minnow larval survival and growth test, suitable for maintaining and spawning the inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, and for its use in the inland silverside larval survival and growth test, suitable for culturing and maintaining mysid shrimp, Mysidopsis bahia, and its use in the mysid shrimp survival, growth, and fecundity test, and suitable for maintaining sea urchins, Arbacia punctulata, and for its use in the sea urchin fertilization test.
For example, thirty-one parts per thousand (31‰) FORTY FATHOMS® can be prepared by dissolving 31 g of sea salts per liter of deionized water.
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