Why does evaporation increase the density of ocean water?

Question

Why does evaporation increase the density of ocean water?

Answer 1

Water is a very good solvent (often called "the universal solvent" even though there are many things that don't disolve in water) - so when you have a huge body of water like an ocean it absorbs billions and billions of tons of minerals and other compounds. Once you evaporate some of the water away you are left with the same amount of solute (the dissoloved solids) but less solvent (the water) - which means that the water weighs more per cubic cm.

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Answer 2

Density Of Ocean Water

Answer 3

The evaporation takes water out of an ocean, but the sat can eaporate. Since the salt is left in the water the water has a hgher salt content and is now denser.

Answer 4

One technique that i've got not got faith has been stated is the organic weathering of minerals that are carried to the oceans via skill of water run off. the international's oceans became "salty" over hundred of thousands and thousands of years via precipitation falling on rock formations, the water dissolving minerals from those formation, then donning those dissolved minerals to the sea. The water interior the oceans could then evaporate and fall returned on land thereby repeating the technique. The dissolved minerals do no longer evaporate and develop in concentration over eons. there is not any reason to have faith this technique isn't persevering with to this present day.

Answer 5

Because it removes the water molecules but leaves the salt and other non-water behind. The same mass of salt, etc disolved in less ocean water would have an increased density