What makes the sea salty?

Question

What makes the sea salty?

Answer 1

the rocks in the sea or around the sea contains pottasium (salt). when the waves are continuously hit the rock, it erodes and gets washed bacck into the sea-making the sea salty. Your not supposed to swallow the water because the salt is in its strongest form and unhealthy.

Answer 2

bathers/swimmers peeing in the sea.

Answer 3

Natural salt

Answer 4

well all water even rain consists of salts, therefore when the sea receives water it is salty because all water consists of salt.

Answer 5

Sea salt, obtained by evaporating seawater, is used in cooking and cosmetics, and is commonly kept in the refrigerator. Historically called bay salt,[1] its mineral content gives it a different taste[2] from table salt, which is pure sodium chloride, usually refined from mined rock salt (halite) or from sea salt. Areas that produce specialized sea salt include the Cayman Islands, Greece, France, Ireland, Colombia, Sicily, Apulia in Italy, and Hawaii,[3] Maine, Utah, the San Francisco Bay, and Cape Cod in the United States. Generally more expensive than table salt, it is commonly used in gourmet cooking and premium potato chips.

Where mineral salt has been readily obtainable it has long been mined. The salt mines of Hallstatt go back at least to the Iron Age. However, it has not been readily obtainable everywhere and the alternative coastal source has also been exploited for thousands of years. The principle of the production is the evaporation of the water from the brine of the sea. In warm and dry climates this may be done entirely by solar energy, but in other climates fuel must be used. For this reason, sea salt production is now almost entirely an industry of Mediterranean and other warm, dry climates.



"Fleur de sel" sea salt, Île de Ré.Such places are today called salt works, instead than the older English word saltern. An ancient or medieval saltern could be established where there was:

Access to a market for the salt.

A gently-shelving coast, protected from exposure to the open sea.

A cheap and easily worked fuel supply; preferably, the sun.

Preferably, another trade such as pastoral farming and tanning so that it and the salt could each add value to the other in the form of leather or salted meat.

In this way, salt marsh, pasture (salting), and salt works (saltern) enhanced each other economically. This was the economic pattern in the Roman and Medieval periods around The Wash, in eastern England. There, the tide brought the brine, the extensive saltings provided the pasture, the fens and moors provided the peat fuel, and the sun sometimes shone.



Manual salt collection in Lake Retba, Senegal.The dilute brine of the sea was largely evaporated by the sun, and the concentrated slurry of salt and mud was scraped up. The slurry was washed with clean sea water so that the impurities settled out of the now concentrated brine. This was poured into shallow pans lightly baked from the local marine clay, which were set on fist-sized clay pillars over a peat fire for the final evaporation. The dried salt was then scraped out and sold.

Answer 6

Salt?

Answer 7

Would you believe salt?

Answer 8

All of the sodium chloride which has dissolved over millions of years in the water

Answer 9

People say that we should not drink sea water before. Why?  

A blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates, but only 10% of that actually makes it into his mate. So 260 gallons are spilled into the ocean every time one unloads. You wonder why the ocean is so salty… Don’t swallow the water.

Yea, I know the reason is lame..

Answer 10

wow that is an awesome question ! i dno lol =P  

Answer 11

whale sperm lol

Answer 12

its the rocks and minerals , mainly basalt rocks, but for a laugh you could say the fish...the chips come with viniegar meh not that funny but hey itd amuse your teacher.

Answer 13

i always wanted to know :]