I would hope they try several different methods to extract the water to determine if it was picking up undissolved salt out of the sample compromising the results.
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“I would hope they try several different methods to extract the water to determine if it was picking up undissolved salt out of the sample compromising the results.”
We must hope the researches considered your idea, and acted on it.
Unfortunately hope is all we have, as so often today scientists get slip shop with their research once a single new finding is made. Then it becomes time not for further checking, but for being the first to publish, so their published works can get them government approvals for more grants.
Yes. Because salts can remain in sediment and through selective filtration, water becomes “saltier”.