why ocean water is salty?

Answer 1

The reason why sea water is salty is of course because of the presence of salt. However, how does it get into the ocean??

As water evaporates, it rises and cools and becomes clouds. It then falls off as rain. These are fresh water as the process is like distillation. As you may know, water is a pretty good solvent and as it washes down the ground, it dissolves small amount of minerals, which includes salt, NaCl.

As you know, water does not just stay on the ground, it flows from high place to low, carry all these minerals with it. As it moves to the lowest point on earth, there is no where to go, so it accumulates. As time goes on, it forms ocean. As this process continues, all the salts are washes into the ocean with no exit, as a result, make the ocean more and more salty.

The dead sea, is indeed the lowest level on earth, and is indeed the most salty sea. The water density is so high (because it has so much salt in it) that almost anything can float on it.

Answer 2

All water, even rain water, contains dissolved chemicals which scientists call "salts." But not all water tastes salty. Water is fresh or salty according to individual judgment, and in making this decision man is more convinced by his sense of taste than by a laboratory test. It is one's taste buds that accept one water and reject another.
A simple experiment illustrates this. Fill three glasses with water from the kitchen faucet. Drink from one and it tastes fresh even though some dissolved salts are naturally present. Add a pinch of table salt to the second, and the water may taste fresh or slightly salty depending on a personal taste threshold and on the amount of salt held in a "pinch." But add a teaspoon of salt to the third and your taste buds vehemently protest that this water is too salty to drink; this glass of water has about the same salt content as a glass of sea water.

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 3

i have no idea but I do know that if youre stranded in the ocean dont drink the salt water no matter how thirsty you are because it makes you more thirsty so yeah :) oh wait I think I do know, I think its salty because of the environment that lives in it you know, and its some sort of protection for the animals and aneneomes that live in the ocean. :) bye

Answer 4

as all the salt which naturally dissolves in noraml river water from natural sources and other various chemical reaction is wahsed into the sea. hence the concentration of the salt in the sea slowly increases. hence over a long period of time it becomes salty.

Answer 5

because there are volcano under the ocean.and the larva of the volcano is salty. when the volcano explode, the larva dissapear into water.so, the water become salty.

Answer 6

the ocean floor earth has lots of salt which has been dissloved in the water

Answer 7

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Answer 8

is this a joke?

Theres bloody salt in the water pal. Its not hard to believe. Its just how the earth works

Answer 9

Here is a good article about this ancient mystery:

http://www.varchive.org/itb/ecocean.htm

Answer 10

Dude its salty so sea animals can live in it