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Why do you heat water to make salt water?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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You can heat saltwater to make steam which has no salt in it. Then you can collect the fresh water droplets that the steam makes, and it is nice, fresh, drinkable water.

The only reason to heat water to make saltwater is if you wanted to either make the salt dissolve quicker, OR to make a super-saturated solution of salt and water. Heating allows the water to hold more salt than if it were at room temperature, say. When you let that water cool, the salt tends to stay in the water - more salt than room-temperature water should hold. This is called a super-saturated salt solution.

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