What is so special about death water?
                                
                                
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                                Valued at over $1.4 billion, the brand Liquid Death has brought the edgy concept of 'death water' to the mainstream, but the phrase has a far more complex history spanning myth, science, and nature. Far from being a single special substance, the term applies to phenomena as varied as a popular canned beverage, a scientific isotope, and a literal sea so saturated with salt that life cannot exist within it.