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Yes, mostly.
Salt, aka NaCl: sodium chloride, contains a positive sodium ion and a negative chloride ion. These are the dominant components of the solids one gets if one evaporates the water from sea water. In fact, the Na and Cl ions make up 78% of all ions in sea water.
The ocean has a lot of salt in it, 3.5% by weight, so if you took one cubic foot of sea water and let the water evaporate, you would get more than two pounds of salt.
That salt is not pure. The salt in the ocean is not just dissolved sodium chloride (Na+, Cl-).
The ocean contains calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium with bicarbonate, sulfate, chlorine and bromine. (If you remove the water, then what is left is, by weight, Cl− 55%, Na+ 30.6%, SO2−, 4 7.7%, Mg2+ 3.7%, Ca2+ 1.2%, K+ 1.1%, Other 0.7%)
The salt that we normally use for food is not the 78% pure stuff from the ocean. We either get it from salt mine that are salt deposits from ancient inland oceans or we get ocean salt where there is a purification process. True ocean salt is not harmful, and it is consumed.
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What are all the names you can call an ocean?
Ocean, Sea, Water, Salt Water. You cant really call an ocean that many things...
How much salt in is a cup of ocean water?
There is 3.5% salinity of salt in one gallon of ocean water. Now you divide that by 16, which is 0.21875. So there is 0.21875% salinity of salt in one cup of ocean water. Mathematics can really pay off!!! Good for you if you were interested in the salinity of salt in one cup of ocean water!!!:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Is the lake salt lake city really made of salt water?
The Great Salt Lake is very high in salt content, much higher than the ocean in fact.
Why is sea salt called sea salt?
In many cases, the two words "sea" and "ocean" are used to mean the same thing. Just as a "sea captain" actually sails on the ocean, "sea salt" really means salt coming from the ocean. There are technical differences between a "sea" and and "ocean" but these are not adhered to in nontechnical, normal daily language. When it comes to salt, the stuff one buys in the store as "sea salt" is likely to be from a sea and not an ocean. The salt gotten by evaporation from inland seas is often closer to pure sodium chloride than salt gotten directly from the ocean which is 78% sodium chloride.
How does sun effect the salt in the ocean?
The Sun does not effect the salt in the ocean.
How does ocean water affects animals?
The salt in the ocean water makes animals dry up like rasins. It's really an ugly sight.
What are the probable sources of salt in the atmosphere?
the ocean. water from the ocean evaporates into the air, ocean water has salt in it.
Is the Atlantic Ocean a freshwater ocean?
Ocean Atlantique (Atlantic Ocean) is salt water, as all oceans are.
Why do Hammerhead sharks live in the ocean and not in salt water?
the ocean is salt water because the rocks in the ocean when the water brushes over the rocks give off salt but if you are talking about justregular salt and water it is because the salt is different from the salt in the ocean which the hammerhead sharks can not adapt to it as well
Is the Atlantic Ocean fresh or salt water?
Like all oceans and seas, the Atlantic Ocean is salt water.
Does ocean water have all of the properties of salt?
No, because ocean water is not salt. Ocean water does have salt dissolved in it, but there are distinct chemical and physical differences. First, ocean water is not crystalline while salt is. Second, ocean water is a solution with many different solutes while salt is a pure compound.
Why do they call ocean water salt water?
because ocean water has salt in it and lots of it..
