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In brief, sodium chloride (salt) is a natural component of the rocks, and as erosion and solution take their course, the salt is dissolved and flows to the sea. The sea can absorb a large quantity of salt.

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What is a good experiment for why is the ocean salty?

One good experiment to demonstrate why the ocean is salty involves using a simulation with a container filled with water and adding salt to it. As the water evaporates, the salt remains behind, showing how salt gets deposited in the ocean over time through processes like evaporation and erosion from rocks. This can help explain why the ocean is salty.


How are minerals formed in salt water?

because of the animals OK the person up there doesn't know what they're talking about, because what makes animals salty? THINK my science book has facts, and it says " salts have collected on the bottom of the ocean floor for billions of years. as rivers and streams flow toward the ocean, they dissolve minerals from the land. the running water carries these dissolved minerals to the ocean." therefore it does help make the ocean salty


Why the water of the ocean is salty?

When water goes to the ocean, most of the time its by a river. When rivers travel over land it picks up particles like salt. When the river meets the ocean at the rivers delta the slowing of the speed of the river causes the bigger sized particles to get deposited at the bottom of the ocean. The smaller particles(salt) remain in the water making the water salty.


How is the sea salty?

The sea is salty because over billions of years, rain and rivers have washed mineral salts from rocks and soil into the ocean. These dissolved salts, such as sodium and chloride, accumulate in the ocean, making it salty.


Is the ocean salty because of fish semen?

No, the ocean is salty primarily due to the presence of dissolved minerals like sodium and chloride from weathering of rocks on land and volcanic activity. Fish semen would not be a significant contributing factor to the salinity of the ocean.

Related Questions

What ocean is not salty?

all oceans are salty, but the Arctic Ocean has the least salt


Is the Indian Ocean salt or clear?

the Indian ocean is salty.


Are rivers and streams fresh or salty?

river is fresh water because it has no salt in it. ocean is salt water because of its salt content. hope this helps


What oceans are salty?

yes, they are salty ,with the help of sea water and ocean water we make salt.


Is the ocean salty because of whale semen?

The ocean is not salty because of whale semen. (See links below)


How do the material that makes water salty enter into the waterway?

The material that makes water salty is, you guessed it, salt! When various minerals are chemically weathered, they release there various constituents, and these then travel, dissolved in water, into the ocean. The water in the ocean then evaporates, rains, and flows back into the ocean loaded with more salt. The effect of this is to increase the concentration of salt in the ocean such that it seems "salty" to us.


Where does the salt water of the Chesapeake bay come from?

When a Newfoundland and a Golden Retriever where beaded they got the Chesapeake Bay Retriever.


Is the Atlantic Ocean fresh or salt water?

Like all oceans and seas, the Atlantic Ocean is salt water.


Is The ocean are salty because of the animals that swim in them?

No it is beause of the dissolved salt in them


Is ocean water drinkable by adding salt?

no ocean water can not be made drinkable by adding salt it would make it even more salty


Is it true or false that your blood is as salty as the ocean?

False. While blood does contain some salt, the concentration of salt in blood is not as high as in the ocean.


What is a good experiment for why is the ocean salty?

One good experiment to demonstrate why the ocean is salty involves using a simulation with a container filled with water and adding salt to it. As the water evaporates, the salt remains behind, showing how salt gets deposited in the ocean over time through processes like evaporation and erosion from rocks. This can help explain why the ocean is salty.