Distillation.
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evaporate the water and then the salt crystals will be left.
When ocean water evaporates, the salt does not evaporate with the water. The water molecules evaporate, leaving the salt behind. This is why seawater is salty, as the salt remains in the ocean as the water evaporates.
If you have salty water for example, and you wish to have just the salt, you must heat the solution. As the solutution heats, the water will evaporate, but the salt will stay, as it cant be evaporated.
The Dead Sea became so salty because it has no outlet for water to flow out, causing water to evaporate and leave behind salt and minerals.
Leave a glass of water outside on a sunny day, the water will evaporate *soak up* leaving the salt in the glass.
... no?If your real question is "can you separate salt from water after you've mixed the two" ... sure. One simple way is to evaporate the water, leaving the salt behind.
you can have the water evaporate and it will leave the salt behind
Lakes become salty if the source of water flowing into the lake contains salt and the salty water cannot flow out of the lake. Salt lakes are endorheic, water leaves the lake by evaporation and leaves the salt and minerals in the remaining water.
Distillation is the process used to separate solutions into constituent components. For example if we have a solution of salty water, we can evaporate or boil away the water, leaving behind the salt.
You can remove salt from salty water through a process called distillation. This involves heating the water until it turns to steam, leaving the salt behind, and then collecting and condensing the steam back into water. Another method is through reverse osmosis, where pressure is used to force water through a semipermeable membrane, leaving the salt behind.
Water can be salty or pure.
92% of the water is salty.