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Is whale sperm the reason why the ocean so salty?

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i heard it is

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  1. The saltiness of the sea comes from dissolved minerals, especially sodium, chlorine, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, and potassium.

    Do you really think that there is enough recurrent and fresh Whale sperm to keep the ocean salty? The water would dilute it's taste of salt, and so would other things. So it is what I said above ^^.


  2. I  think it  was  there  before  the  whale and other  life.

  3. Whales have sperm?

  4. This has to be a joke but on the outside chance that it is not,

    humans breathe out Carbon Dioxide.  The rain that falls on the land contains some of this carbon dioxide.  This makes the rain like an acid.  When this rain falls on rocks it breaks them down into smaller and smaller pieces.  The rock pieces are carried in the rain as ions.  Ions are atoms that have an electric charge.  The ions in the rain are carried to the streams and rivers and then to the ocean.  The two ions that are most often found in the water that goes to the ocean are sodium and chloride, which is NaCl or salt.... When water evaporates from the oceans into the atmosphere, the salt is left behind. The amount of salt dissolved in the oceans is, on average 34.5 percent by weight. Scientists believe that there may be fifty quadrillion tons of salt in the ocean. That's fifty million billion pounds! If we could take all the salt out of the ocean and spread it over the earth, it would be over 500 feet thick. That would almost cover the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., which is 555 feet tall.

  5. HAHAHA....

    where did you hear this from???

    that's too funny..

    i really don't think so.

  6. YEP, BILLIONS OF GALLONS OF IT

  7. Yes, whale sperm is the reason why the ocean is so salty. And the salt does not just come from whale sperm. It also comes from shark sperm, scuba diver sperm and idiots who m********e in the middle of the sea.

  8. No

    it is salty due to dissolved minerals in the water that are washed down through river s over a period of billions of years

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