why is the ocean salty?

Answer 1

Sea water has been defined as a weak solution of almost everything. Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea. Some of the ocean's salts have been dissolved from rocks and sediments below its floor. Other sources of salts include the solid and gaseous materials that escaped from the Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the atmosphere.

Answer 2

The ocean is salty because the world's rivers carry minerals (including salt) into the ocean. Water later evaporates from the ocean, but the minerals remain, resulting in higher mineral content in the ocean. The salt is particularly noticeable, because we can taste it. The sea's salt content has been stable for millions of years, though, because a certain amount of salt and other minerals are absorbed by geological processes on the ocean floor.

Answer 3

Many of the salts in the oceans are believed to be associated with mid-oceanic ridges. As water comes in contact with rising magma upwelling from the mantle, ions are transferred from the magma to the water and these spew into the ocean as black smokers or white smokers, depending on the chemistry of the ions. The salty taste is our sense of taste responding to (mostly) sodium and potassium ions in seawater.

Answer 4

Minerals that are carried in streams are deposited in the ocean, Some rivers deposit a lot of sodium, some carry chlorine,among other minerals. When they reach the ocean, they combine to make salt

Answer 5

salt amongst other things are metalic compounds..there are hundreds of salts...they dissociate in water and ionize and continue doing other chem activities in oceans...that tells us that in a small way/yet significant that the ocean is a small/huge battery producing life.......two salts important in yr and my life are potassium and sodium based...but they are not digestable unless run through a vegatative system...the plant world....congrats...good question

Answer 6

there are corals, sand, rocks, fish, and seaweed that make the ocean salty as hell.

Answer 7

It's salty because there's salt in it.

Answer 8

the water mixed with the salt deposits that were naturally there

Answer 9

actualy god wanted to add sugar to ocean
but he got confuse in salt and sugar
looks alike

Answer 10

there are many other minerals in it but we only taste salt