This quantity names a “fingering” process between regions with differing values of this quantity that paradoxically leads to more efficient mixing. Silver nitrate is used to measure this quantity in the Mohr–Knudsen titration. A polynomial function of a ratio of conductivities defines this quantity in the PSS-78, which is also determined by measuring conductivity in a CTD. Melting Arctic sea ice has led to the (*) slowing of the AMOC due to a decrease in this quantity. A type of circulation named for temperature and this quantity is also called the global conveyor belt, since temperature and this quantity determine the density of water. For seawater, this quantity usually equals about 35 parts per thousand. For 10 points, identify this quantity which measures the concentration of compounds such as sodium chloride in the ocean. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 22% | 11% | 67.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 77.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 98.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 61.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 112.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 71.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 69.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.83 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT | 13 | -5 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Lexington | 18 | 15 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | Art of Premature Signaling | 32 | 15 |
| Alex Li | Free Agents 1 | Egypt Airlines Haters | 32 | 15 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 32 | 15 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA A | 32 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 32 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | SIUE | 34 | 15 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 46 | 15 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | Alberta | 56 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Iowa State | 57 | 15 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill B | Toronto C | 62 | -5 |
| Nathan Liang | Mahjonng Masters | we need new names | 65 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Guelph | 67 | -5 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Quatumvirate | 67 | 10 |
| Theenash Sengupta | MSJ | Goober Gang | 68 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | Gruh | 68 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 72 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 75 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Missouri | 75 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 75 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | George Mason C | 75 | 10 |
| Edward Li | Johns Hopkins B | Haverford B | 75 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Illinois Orange | 75 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto A | 75 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | UBC | 75 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | Claremont B | 75 | -5 |
| Wiston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD | 75 | 10 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | Mac A | 79 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 82 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | NYU C | 82 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | McGill A | 82 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Lancaster | 84 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 84 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield B | 85 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 85 | 10 |
| James Ah Yong | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 85 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 85 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Maryland A | 85 | 10 |
| Ameya Bhalerao | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 85 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 85 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 85 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University A | 85 | 10 |
| Stan | Gruh | Auburn 2026 | 85 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 87 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | Haverford A | 87 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Bulbasaur | 87 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 88 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial A | LSE | 89 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Brandeis | 91 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 92 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 92 | -5 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 94 | 10 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | evil women enjoyers | 97 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Birmingham | 102 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick C | Edinburgh | 102 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | UW B | Carleton | 102 | 10 |
| Elijah Quan | Michigan C | Michigan D | 104 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 106 | 10 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | NYU B | 113 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Belmont | 114 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto B | 125 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | UW A | 128 | 10 |
| Daniel Carlton | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 129 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 132 | 10 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Master and Margaritaville | 133 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill B | 133 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 133 | 10 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 133 | 10 |