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The Earth is composed of over 70 percent water. It is estimated that there are over 50 quadrillion tons of salt in the worldâ??s oceans.
Laurence Aufderhar
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∙ 11y agoSimple Answer:
Yes. Ocean water is really salty, making it salt water.
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The ocean has a lot of salt in it, 3.5% by weight, but that is not just dissolved sodium chloride (Na+, Cl-). The dissolved sodium and chlorine atoms account for about 85% of the salt by weight.
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%)
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∙ 16y agoThere are four types of base salts in the ocean. These four base salts are are built upon by organisms, to create new, more complex salts. The for base salt types are called sea salt, greater sea salt, frost salts, and rock salt. The salt's most vicous natural enemy is the salt shark, which rabidly inhales the salt from the water around it. Not even dissolved salts are safe from this shark's deadly jaws. For more info on the salt shark, please see www.Pen-Island.com
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∙ 11y agoThe ocean has a lot of salt in it, 3.5% by weight, but that is not just dissolved sodium chloride (Na+, Cl-). The dissolved sodium and chlorine atoms account for about 85% of the salt by weight.
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%)
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∙ 10y agoThe most important salt in sea/ocean waters is sodium chloride; also exist calcium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride.
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∙ 9y agoOcean water contain sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium chlorides.
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∙ 10y agoThe most important is sodium chloride; also exist magnesium chloride and calcium chloride.
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∙ 13y agozincana and popoca
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∙ 9y agoThese salts are: NaCl, KCl, MgCl2, CaCl2.
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What is the measure of dissolved salts in the oceans called?
salinity
Where did the salts on the ocean came from?
Salts are dissolved from the Earth by rivers and transported in seas and oceans.
How are salts added to ocean water?
Salts are dissolved from the earth and transported by rivers in oceans.
What are the sources of sea salts?
The salts are dissolved by rivers in the mountains and transported to Oceans and Seas.
How do salts enter the sea?
Salts are dissolved from the earth and transported in seas/oceans by rivers.
How salts collect in the ocean?
Salts are dissolved from the Earth and transported by rivers in seas/oceans.
Where do oceans salts come from?
Salt is dissolved from the earth and transported by rivers in seas and oceans.
How does the salt get in the water?
Salts are dissolved from the Earth by rivers and transported in seas and oceans.
How does salt get the sea?
Salts are dissolved from the Earth and transported by rivers in seas and oceans.
Where does the salts in the sea come from?
Salts are dissolved from the earth and transported in seas and oceans by rivers; a small part of salts is formed from submarine volcanoes eruptions.
Calculate the weight of dissolved salts in the oceans of the world?
This mass is approx. 5.1019 t.
Why has the ocean accumulated salts?
Salt is dissolved from the earth and transported to seas and oceans by the intermediate of rivers.
