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When ocean water freezes into sea ice, some of the salt is incorporated into the new ice. Thereafter, that salt drains as brine (salt plus water), causing the layer of water below to be of higher salinity.

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How do you explain the peculiarity on the salinity of sea water and similarly for the hardness of water?

Although the question is very badly written and hence not easy to work out the meaning of, I assume the peculiarity referred to is that seawater and hard waters are similar. If so, there is no peculiarity at all; it is what we expect. Both contain higher than normal levels of dissolved salts, so there salinity is roughly the same. In the case of seawater, it is sodium chloride for the most part, but for hard water it is normally calcium salts.


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How do you explain the peculiarity on the salinity of sea water and similarly for the hardness of water?

Although the question is very badly written and hence not easy to work out the meaning of, I assume the peculiarity referred to is that seawater and hard waters are similar. If so, there is no peculiarity at all; it is what we expect. Both contain higher than normal levels of dissolved salts, so there salinity is roughly the same. In the case of seawater, it is sodium chloride for the most part, but for hard water it is normally calcium salts.


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