Quite different from Lake Asphaltite,whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt,and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170,and,after being distilled,1,000.
The specific weight (also known as the unit weight) is the weight per unit volume of a material. The symbol of specific weight is γ (the Greek letter Gamma).
A commonly used value is the specific weight of water on Earth at 5°C which is 9.807 kN/m or 62.43 lbf/ft.