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Conservation of salt with salt-retaining ice (S/S0​=(M/M0​)r−1)

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Let liquid mass M freeze incrementally, and let each new ice increment retain salinity rS with constant 0≤r≤1, where S is the instantaneous well-mixed liquid salinity. Conservation gives d(MS)=rSdM, hence dS/S=(r−1)dM/M. Integrating yields S/S0​=(M/M0​)r−1. For frozen mass fraction f, ΔS=S0​[(1−f)−(1−r)−1]≃(1−r)S0​f. Specifying a fixed bulk ice salinity instead produces a different, though first-order compatible, finite-mass balance.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2010 / iii / Paper 69 / 3 / Solution

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