How do I measure the amount of salt in the Dead Sea?

Answer 1

Boil all the water in the Dead Sea and measure the amount of salt produced

Answer 2

It depends on weather or not you are wanting a concentration or a total amount of salt. Also, it depents on what you mean by salt. Salinity is usually determined in salt waters using a process called Electrical Conductivity, which basically tests how well a saltwater conducts electricity. (Water, with no ions present is actually a great insulator, it is the disolved ions, which make up salts, that make water electrically conductive) This is really a test for all types of salt in the water, not just NaCl, which is the chemical formula for table salt. A salt is any neutral compound composed of a cation (+) with a metal anion (-). Once you know what type(s) of salt you are looking for, you can either do the Electrical Conductivity Test to determine the salinity or do a chemical assay to determine the concentration of a particular salt. If you need the total amount of salt, then you would multiply the concentration of the salt(s) by the volume of the Dead Sea. According to Wikipedia, the salinity is about 30% salts, with a volume of ~147km^3 so the total amount of salts is 44 km^3. To give you an idea of how much salt that is, you would need ~ 6800 super tankers to move it all.

Answer 3

First, the salinity of the dead sea is about 30% (300 g/l). The dimensions of the dead sea are approximately 67 km x 18 km x 0.12 km average depth. I t has an estimated 147 km^3 total volume. 1 kiloliter=1cubic meter. There's 147 billion kiloliters in 147 km^3. Therefore, we have 4.41 x 10^13 kg of salt in the dead sea.

Answer 4

See how much salt is represented in a sample of Dead Sea water. Express this as a ratio, then see how much water is in the Dead Sea, and then cross multiply. sample water/salt of sample * Amount of water in dead sea/salt in dead sea

Answer 5

I don't think that there's a way to do that. Why do you even want to know?

Answer 6

with a spoon