Saline-Cascatine water

Saline-Cascatine water was a liquid substance that made up the oceans of the Shimmering Seas. It contained high levels of salt and Cascatine.

Appearance
Saline-Cascatine water was mostly transparent, though slightly murkier than fresh water. It could appear silvery from a distance, a result of light reflecting off of the Cascatine present within it. Matoran settlers to the Shimmering Seas initially mistook it for liquid Protodermis before noticing it was clearer than Protodermis.

Properties
Saline-Cascatine water generally resembled the nature and properties of water. The only major difference was the presence of Cascatine, which made up approximately 1.6 percent of saline-Cascatine water’s weight. Salt particles represented an additional 2.7 percent of saline-Cascatine water’s weight.

Because of the presence of salt and Cascatine, saline-Cascatine water was generally unfit for drinking unless purified. Biosynth species could in fact consume the water if the salt was removed, as their bodies had come to accept Cascatine as a benevolent substance. Purely organic creatures had to find fresh water elsewhere on their islands, and most purely organic aquatic life living in the oceans adapted to breathing water laced with Cascatine.