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Many bottled water companies are harvesting sea ice amnd artic ice flows from the ocean in order to melt them and sell the water as bottled water because this type of sea ice is extremely pure. In fact it is almost completely frozen fresh water despote formed from ocean salt water. EXPLAIN why this is so.

2007-05-29 05:12:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry

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At such low temperatures, practically no solute is present in the water.

2007-05-29 06:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

As ice is formed from a salt solution, salt is excluded from ice.

2007-05-29 05:19:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋