Bittern (salt)

Bittern - waste product of solar salt operations rich in magnesium sulfate. Article “Bittern (salt)” in English Wikipedia has 48.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 7 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Bittern (salt)”, its content was written by 41 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 176 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 175 times in English Wikipedia and cited 325 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #36415 in December 2019
• Global: #46730 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35892 in May 2017
• Global: #55091 in May 2017

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bittern (salt)		48.7147
2	Japanese (ja) にがり		25.5181
3	Italian (it) Nigari		23.8027
4	German (de) Nigari		18.1796
5	Korean (ko) 간수 (소금물)		14.983
6	Portuguese (pt) Nigari		10.5035
7	Chinese (zh) 盐卤		7.6405
8	Polish (pl) Nigari		2.8371

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bittern (salt)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) にがり		1 382 148
2	English (en) Bittern (salt)		241 199
3	Chinese (zh) 盐卤		180 917
4	German (de) Nigari		142 618
5	Polish (pl) Nigari		109 707
6	Portuguese (pt) Nigari		37 264
7	Korean (ko) 간수 (소금물)		14 591
8	Italian (it) Nigari		6 592

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bittern (salt)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) にがり		3 143
2	Chinese (zh) 盐卤		2 573
3	English (en) Bittern (salt)		1 893
4	German (de) Nigari		360
5	Korean (ko) 간수 (소금물)		220
6	Italian (it) Nigari		91
7	Portuguese (pt) Nigari		79
8	Polish (pl) Nigari		63

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bittern (salt)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) にがり		50
2	English (en) Bittern (salt)		41
3	German (de) Nigari		38
4	Italian (it) Nigari		14
5	Portuguese (pt) Nigari		12
6	Polish (pl) Nigari		9
7	Chinese (zh) 盐卤		8
8	Korean (ko) 간수 (소금물)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bittern (salt)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Nigari		0
2	English (en) Bittern (salt)		0
3	Italian (it) Nigari		0
4	Japanese (ja) にがり		0
5	Korean (ko) 간수 (소금물)		0
6	Polish (pl) Nigari		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Nigari		0
8	Chinese (zh) 盐卤		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bittern (salt)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Bittern (salt)		175
2	Japanese (ja) にがり		86
3	Chinese (zh) 盐卤		38
4	Korean (ko) 간수 (소금물)		13
5	German (de) Nigari		6
6	Italian (it) Nigari		3
7	Polish (pl) Nigari		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Nigari		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Nigari
en	English Bittern (salt)
it	Italian Nigari
ja	Japanese にがり
ko	Korean 간수 (소금물)
pl	Polish Nigari
pt	Portuguese Nigari
zh	Chinese 盐卤

Best Rank

English: #35892 05.2017

Global: #55091 05.2017

Best Rank

English: #36415 12.2019

Global: #46730 02.2005

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