can u eat the salt out of the ocean?

Question

ok me and my friend got into a arguement about wether or not u can eat the salt out of the ocean so can u

Answer 1

Yes, you can buy sea salt at grocery stores.

Answer 2

You can eat anything out of the Ocean, but would you want to!? Salt it salt, but wether its processed and healthy is another thing. Its the same salt on your kitchen table as is in the oceans.

Answer 3

Table salt, or sodium chloride (chemical formula: NaCl), is harvested from two main places: salt pans which are found in desert-like areas and the ocean.

The salt which is harvested from the ocean is obtained from large, shallow, human-made lakes which are filled with salt water pumped straight from the sea. This is allowed to evaporate using the sun's rays. It's then bulldozed into piles, loaded onto trucks and taken to a processing plant where it is thoroughly cleaned and dried. The only chemical which is added to it is a "free running agent" - usually something like epsom salts (another naturally-occurring salt) which allows the salt to stay as tiny individual crystals instead of becoming large hard lumps.

Sodium chloride is sodium chloride, wherever it comes from. It's made up of two "elements" that are like other naturally-occurring things like hydrogen, magnesium, neon etc. At the moment, we've got about 160 of these "elements" which cannot be broken down beyond what they are. Like water(H2O). When you break water apart, you get oxygen and hydrogen. You can't break either one down any further...

The combination of sodium metal and chloride (NaCl) is a naturally occurring substance. Seperately they are both very posionous to human beings and most other animals; the same can be said for the compound in larger "doses" than about 5g. at any one time.

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Jarrah

Answer 4

we can by drinking the water of ocean but u just cannot eat the salt alone and if u want u have to treat it with some chemicals and have to undergo some process

Answer 5

Um , its only quite recently that we virtually stopped using rock salt , and in many parts of the third world its still quite normal to do so .
And that's without any refining apart from evaporation to get the salt out of solution .

Answer 6

I'm going to say you can since they sell "sea salt" in the grocery store.

Answer 7

You shouldn't drink any water from the ocean. U Crazy?

Answer 8

yes u can... that's wat we call "rock salt"... i saw in on telly wen i was still a kid ( hope my memoriy is right :P ) it goes thru a lot processing before they sell it...