The origin of sea water becomes salty

When you are at the edge of the ocean, of course you are moved to enjoy the water by swimming, then when you swim accidentally swallows sea water then you will feel the taste of salt water right?

When that happens have you ever thought why sea water is salty?

But have you ever known or realized, that if the water we drink every day actually contains salt or sometimes there is fresh water in some locations feels brackish! However, if so why can't we taste salt? This is because the concentration is too low, so that the taste of fresh water is superior to salt water. So in this case the saltiness in sea water can be caused by several factors so that the sea water itself becomes salty.

Several factors cause water to be salty

The first factor

The first factor that causes sea water to be salty is that it comes from the rain water itself. If from the rain water what is the effect with salty? While the rainwater itself tastes fresh!

In one scientific or fisika explanation it is said that when rain falls on the ground or forest, rain water has settled for a long time, then water flows into the sea, sediment water containing minerals flows and carries dissolved mineral salts so that the sea is filled with salt minerals that derived from land or deposits in old soil. Then, when the water reaches the sea, water experiences evaporation.

In this evaporation process, water evaporates into the air while mineral salts remain with sea water.

Second factor

Then the second thing that causes sea water to become salty due to the activity in the ocean itself.

This is caused by

underwater volcanism and underwater volcanic eruptions.

Then quoting from one of the explanations of physicists, they said that this happened similar to the previous process that took place, where seawater that reacts with hot stones dissolves some salt minerals in the ocean floor. Then some dissolved salt reacts with hot rock and is separated from the water, so that the object gradually blends with several components of the ocean, causing the sea water to become salty.

So it can be concluded that, the cause of sea water becomes salty due to processes from outside the ocean and from the ocean itself as described above.

But in this case in each country has its own uniqueness with regard to sea water, meaning that each ocean has its own difference in salty levels, sometimes there are countries that have a very thick saltiness and sometimes there is low salinity.

Then the experts further added that they had calculated levels such as,

the concentration of salt in seawater around the coast reaches 25 grams per liter (g / l) so the researchers estimate that the subsurface water also has the same conditions or lower because of mixed water.

So based on that it was found that the salinity of sea water is different in each marine area.

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