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Excerpt from The Effect of Pressure on the Electrical Conductivity of Sea Water
The importance of detailed knowledge concerning the electrical conduc tivity of the sea and of the variation of this parameter with concentration, tem perature, and pressure is widely recognized. As a consequence of The Conference on Physical and Chemical Properties of Sea Water, held at Easton, Maryland, in September, 195 8, 5 sponsored by the Office of'naval Research and the Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences, the Committee on Chemi cal Properties recommended that electrical conductivity be used as a sea -water characteristic, and the Committee on Physical Properties reported that knowledge of the effect of pressure on the conductivity of sea water would be useful In a paper given at this same conference, D. W. Pritchard of the Chesapeake Bay Insti tute of Johns Hopkins University noted that the lack of certain basic information restricts the use of in situ conductivity measurements in deep water for the de termination of salinity. There appears to have been no investigation of the effect of pressure on the conductivity of sea water Thus it would seem very desirable to include a study of the pressure effect of conductivity in any program developed to improve our knowledge of the physical and chemical properties of sea 3)
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