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What refers to the amount of salt dissolved in the ocean?
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Where does ocean get salt?
- salt is dissolved from the earth (also as ions Na+ and Cl-) and transported in oceans by rivers - chlorine from volcanic activity in oceans and sodium from the earth form NaCl
What are deposits that form from minerals dissolved in ocean water?
Generically, they are called "rime". Primary constituents are salt, with other solutes being metal oxides and such.
Why does the Dead Sea have more salt than the Atlantic Ocean?
The Dead Sea has a higher salinity (more salt per unit volume) than the Atlantic Ocean but less total amount of salt because the Atlantic is so much bigger.
Why does the amount of water on earth stay constant?
There is the same amount of salt that goes out of the water to the salt that comes in the water so that is how it remains balance. Actually the oceans are slowly getting more and more salty, due to dissolved salts from the land in river water.
What is the principal source of dissolved salts in the oceans?
Body parts of the living creatures after death which already contains some amount of salt in them,decomposes in the sea and salt is released in the sea water and i also believe that the process of excretion by the sea creatures also adds to the level salt in the sea ..
Refers to the amount of salt dissolved in the ocean?
Salinity
What is the amount of dissolved salt in the ocean?
salinity
What is the amount of dissolved salt in the ocean called?
salinity
What is the total amount of dissolved salt in water called?
The total amount of dissolved salts in ocean water is referred to as "Salinity". :)
What do you mean by concenteration in chemistry?
It refers to the amount of solute dissolved in a solvent. Say, for example, you were making a salt water solution. The higher the amount of salt dissolved in the water, the higher the concentration of the solution.
What refers to the number of grams of dissolved salts in 1kg of ocean water?
How much salt is in 1kg of water
What is it called when salt is dissolved in the ocean?
The meaning is that the ocean water is saline.
What is total amount of dissolved salt in ocean water called?
i believe it is salinity
What is the common compound that is abundantly dissolved in the ocean?
Salt
What type of load is the salt in the ocean?
dissolved load
How does the ocean get salt in it?
Salt is dissolved from the earth and transported by rivers in seas/oceans.
How did the ocean get salt?
Salt is dissolved from the earth and transported by rivers in seas/oceans.
