2006-10-30 03:04:53 · 14 answers · asked by Andrew D 1 in Environment
These are simply dissolved salts leached by rains and floods and carried into the ocean. They do have a special purpose though and that is to reduce evaporation of the seas and oceans. If all of the salts were removed from the seas and place on land, it would form a layer about 36 feet deep. Saalt Water is very complex but the main ingredient is sodium chloride with lesser amount of about 30 other elements including uranium. The greatest salt concentration is in the Dead Sea where little fresh water enters and evaporation is high because of heat.
2006-10-30 03:12:21 · answer #1 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This should be in YFAQ:
Salt and other minerals were carried into the sea by rivers, having been leached out of the ground by rainfall runoff. Upon reaching the ocean, these salts would be retained and concentrated as the process of evaporation removed the water.
In addition, sodium was leached out of the ocean floor when the oceans first formed. The presence of the other dominant element of salt, chloride, results from "outgassing" of chloride (as hydrochloric acid) with other gases from Earth's interior via volcanos and hydrothermal vents. The sodium and chloride subsequently became the most abundant constituents of sea salt.
2006-10-30 05:32:24 · answer #2 · answered by wimbledon andy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When an Alkali and an Acid become reactionary together, or in common parlance 'get jiggy with it', the subsequent reaction results in salt being produced as one of the products.
As most things on this earth are not pH neutral (neither acid nor alkali) there are an awful lot of reactions occurring which produce salts as one of the products. Salt is present everywhere in mineral form, but is washed into the Oceans by physical earth processes.
2006-10-30 03:34:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
All the minerals being taken into rivers by rain then running into the sea, and the cycle goes on. Only water is evaporated from the sea.
2006-10-30 03:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the salt come from the sea.
2006-10-30 03:06:39 · answer #5 · answered by Cutebunny 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
salt comes from the sea
2006-10-30 03:11:51 · answer #6 · answered by NOT TELLING YOU LOL 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ah, right - I though it was because the sea weed . . . .
2006-10-30 03:14:37 · answer #7 · answered by NORSE-MAN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have wondered about that as well, not convinced any of the current amswers are correct though,
2006-10-30 03:17:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sodium chloride deposits in the area that the sea is in.
2006-10-30 03:06:47 · answer #9 · answered by Bistro 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because fish make love in it !
2006-10-30 03:18:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋