Talk:Bittern (salt)

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Also,the traditional source of Nigari...
The traditional ingredient to coagulate soy milk for tofu production was Bittern, ie: Nigari, in Japanese or Lushui in Chinese. In the modern era has largely been supplanted with synthetically produced Magnesium/Calcium salts, predominantly Magnesium chloride (E511). 81.102.111.206 (talk) 18:03, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia has some good articles on brine mining. this stub could use a link to those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searles_Lake

50.90.215.156 (talk) 20:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)robbin stewart

Crystallization of halite rather than evaporation
The first sentence should refer to the crystallization of halite, or the evaporation of the brine/seawater. The halite is not the part that is evaporating, rather it is some of the water in the brine or seawater which is evaporating.

Old: "Bittern (pl. bitterns) is a bitter-tasting solution that remains after evaporation of halite (common salt) from brines and/or seawater." Proposed: "Bittern (pl. bitterns) is a bitter-tasting solution that remains after the crystallization of halite (common salt) from brines and/or seawater."

The crystallization/evaporation process is described on the Evaporite page, which I found linked on the Halite page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporite "Evaporite (pronunciation: /ᵻˈvæpəraɪt/) is a name for a water-soluble mineral sediment that results from concentration and crystallization by evaporation from an aqueous solution"

JasonMcDowell (talk) 21:42, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Student Editor: Fall 2019
Hi all! I'm editing this article as part of a project for my Environmental Geochemistry class this semester. I've managed to find some new sources of information, but if anyone has any others that I missed, I'm always open to suggestions and help.

Evaluation of existing article sources and citations
Two links of the five currently tied to the article are non-responsive or broken altogether. One of the functional links leads to a website focused on the production of tofu, which, while useful, is not a peer-reviewed source and therefore is not the most appropriate source of information for this article. Most notable though, is the use of extremely close paraphrasing in the introductory paragraph. The information in question is from the Encyclopaedia Britannica article cited in that paragraph, and wording and phrasing is near-identical to the encyclopedia article.

The "Environmental Impacts" section of the article also appears to be missing a citation regarding the apparent limited environmental impact of bittern.

--Rwalter00 (talk) 03:05, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Bibliography (New Sources of Information)
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Alamdari, A.; Rahimpour, M. R.; Esfandiari, N.' Nourafkan, E. (2008). "Kinetics of magnesium hydroxide precipitation from sea bittern". Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification. 47(2): 215- 221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2007.02.012

Albuquerque, L. F.; Salgueiro, A. A.; de S. Melo, J. L.; Chiavone-Filho, O. (2013). "Coagulation of indigo blue present in dyeing wastewater using a residual bittern". Separation and Purification Technology. 104: 246-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2012.12.005

Kishimoto, Yoshimi et al. (2010). "Effects of magnesium on postprandial serum lipid responses in healthy human subjects." British Journal of Nutrition. 103: 469-472. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114509992716

Kumar, Ramesh; Pal, Parimal (2015). "Assessing the feasibility of N and P recovery by struvite precipitation from nutrient-rich wastewater: a review". Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22(22): 17453-17464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-5450-2

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Li, Jinlong; Cheng, Yongquiang; Tatsumi, Eizo; Saito, Masayoshi; Yin, Lijun (2013). "The use of W/O/W controlled-release coagulants to improve the quality of bittern-solidified tofu". Food Hydrocolloids. 35: 627-635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2013.08.002

Li, X. Z.; Zhao, Q. L. (2002). "MAP Precipitation from Landfill Leachate and Seawater Bittern Waste". Environmental Technology. 23(9): 989-1000. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593332308618348

Lozano, José A. Fernández (1976). "Recovery of potassium magnesium sulfate double salt from seawater bittern." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and development. 15(3): 445-449. :https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/i260059a018

Mondal, Dibyendu et al. (2015). "Four-fold concentration of sucrose in sugarcane juice through energy efficient forward osmosis using sea bittern as a draw solution." RSC Advances. 23: 17872-17878. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA00617A

Oren, Aharon (2019). "Chapter 3: Solar salterns as model systems for the study of halophilic microorganisms in their natural environments". Model Systems in Extreme Environments. 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-812742-1.00003-9

Wenter, I. Gede; Ariono, Danu; Purwasasmita, Mubiar; Khoirudin (2017). "Integrated processes for desalination and salt production: A mini-review". AIP Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976929]

--Rwalter00 (talk) 01:39, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Small Update
Hi all! My edits to the article have been added. I'd love to hear any feedback you have as I'm looking to improve my writing and maybe even start contributing to more pages when I have time. Thanks!

-- Rwalter00 (talk) 01:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)