
Underwater volcanoes and lots of salt: A deep dive into the ocean
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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Precipitation Is a Solution
If these salts keep getting left behind in the ocean, why isn't it getting saltier and saltier all the time until it's nothing but salt? And ohoh, don't worry. The salts have a way of leaving the water so that salts are coming in, but they're allso being removed from mineral precipitation. If only we had a jaszy way of talking about precipitation. It would be like if the chocolate and your chocolate milk suddenly clumped together and turned back into a chocolate bar leave the milk white and creamy again. Don't worry, that won't happen with your drink. But it does happen with air. Up in the sky, water molecules and other gases
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