if rain comes from the seas where does the salt go?

Answer 1

It stays in the sea.

Evaporation takes the water only, leaving the salt behind. This is why the sea is salty - tiny amounts of rock that dissolve into rivers concentrate in the sea over millions of years of evaporation.

Answer 2

Well, when the sea water evaporates, it leaves out the salt. Then, it rains on the sea, and the 'left-out' salt gets together with the rain. And so on. So, the salt stays in the sea. I think the salt to is way too heavy to evaporate. Plus, that's the way you get natural salt. Get some sea water, then leave it out to the sun to dry: evaporate, then you'll get salt. Maybe you could try it if you go to the beach one day. I tried it as well!

Answer 3

only the water content of the sea evaporates because water has a lower boiling point than salt. Water evaporates at 100 degrees celsius. Salt is a solid and it would take a much higher temperature to make it evaporate, and the sun is too far away too heat the salt in the ocean to such an intensity to cause it to evaporate.

Answer 4

Do you know the conventional method of salt production on large scale?Sea water is allowed to enter the land and then they are prevented from going back to sea.The stagnant sea water is allowed to evaporate in the sunshine for many days.When all the water got evaporated , the salt is left behind which is packed and sold.So when sea water evaporates and forms cloud ,salt is left behind in the sea itself.As a friend pointed out above this is going on for millions of years and the left out salt got accumulated in the seas and that is why sea water is salty.

Answer 5

The salt is too heavy to get past the carbon layer diffusing across the sea?
I've heard of metals in the rain so why not sodium, might be too reactive to stay in the air long enough, what with all the stability the air molecules have slowing reaction with light rays, I'm pretty sure its cause salt is still nonreactive with light and isn't needed with the metals at the top of our atmosphere!

Answer 6

The evaporation process leaves the salt, because salt cannot be evaporated, there is one place in spain which is a cove where they let the water in qnd block it off while the sun evaporates the water leaving salt rock which they make sea-salt out of!!!

Answer 7

Rain is due to a natural distillation process.
When sea water (or any water evaporates, the vapour rises out of the water and leaves impurites that can't evaporate under the same conditions. (Like the salt in sea water).
The rising vapour collects as clouds and, under certain conditions of atmopheric pressure and temperature, the clouds will condense back into pure water.
(Unfortunately, as the rain falls it absorbs dust particles and gases from the atmosphere, but ...no salt.).

Answer 8

The salt is to heavy to evaporate with the water, so it stays in the ocean while the H2O goes up and gets rained back down again.

Answer 9

It is only the water that evaporates, leaving the salt and other dissolved material behind. That is why inland seas in areas with little rainfall to dilute them, like the Dead Sea, have such high concentration of minerals.

Answer 10

as in a laboratory, salt water separates into its component parts when it's heated. i.e. water evaporates, rises as vapor then condenses as it cools and falls as rain or water on a glass window, water in a beaker etc.The salt stays in it's original container. In this case, water would evaporate from the sea, rise as vapour, form clouds, fall as rain. Salt stays in the sea in the water that's left or, if the sea that it came from is shallow enough such as the salt flats in Utah u.s.a., water evaporates, salt stays as lumps of salt on the shore, edge of the sea water... hope that helps