TIL: Why Is the Ocean Salty? | Today I Learned
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2015
- How is it that we didn't know why the ocean was salty until 1979? National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Bob Ballard explains why such a basic question remained a mystery for so long-and where his team finally found the answer.
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TIL: Why Is the Ocean Salty? | Today I Learned
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I thought it was because of all the tears of misunderstood sharks
Aww 😢
No. It's because of the pee of all the marine animals
You’re forgetting, the most important extinct species endangered species megalodons
Oh wow I always thought it was because of fish sweatting too much lol
Cuz fish have pores right 😂😂😂 foh
Cant take a bad joke
Really....lol
WTH
what I find weird is I never thought why myself. lol
Well this is simple and full of knowledge. Gotta love that
Because the land doesn't wave back
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Jay Versace
My parents when I was a little kid told me that a ship carrier was carrying salty and the salt felt in and that's why 😂😂
😂
Even the Indian family also said that 😅
@@UNIVERSE_SUPREME_GOD Makes sense, there are salty oceans everywhere... The more you know...🌠
Nice to know. Before I thought that sea salt just came from land. Although the chemistry is different, I assumed that over a billion years, they would certainly accumulate there because I also thought that salt is just really stuck at the sea while water evaporates from it.
Well that probably is also a contributing factor!
I aware of why the ice from that place wasn't easy to melt bcoz of salt (just like how we put salt to temporary maintain the ices) but didn't expect ocean bcome salty bcoz of it 🤣🤣🤣
I love these Today I Learned videos!! THANKS ♥️.
This would make an excellent RUclips short
Amazing nature's truths. The earth science yet tobe known of it's magnemettie. Lovely.
Thought of this with my captain. Thank you.
Interesting issue and explanations, very good video. :):)
Oceans are Incredible.
Thought it was because there was once people who had lots of salt on a pirate ship and the ship sunk with the salt
lol. That would have to be a ship the size of Europe, just full of salt
they Always told me it is because of whale sperm
tom 1997 same😂😂
the whale sperm of a sperm whale
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You made me loose my lunch reading this. You can keep it.
awesome
Wow! Somebody answered my undying curiosity about saltwater atlast
That’s awesome
King Milinda: "Why is the ocean all of one taste?"
Nagasena: "Because it has stood for so long."
-- From The Questions of King Milinda
I know, parents never knew... awesome!
Why are so many endorheic basins salty? I understand that when water evaporates faster than it flows in the deposits are left behind, never flowing to the sea, but where does the salt come from if not from these thermal vents? The Great Salt Lake for example is 4000' above sea level.
Erosion of rocks on land.
My country school teacher taught that salt in the oceans surfaced from deep within the earth. This was back in 1952. There are lots of things you'll never learn in modern production line schools.
Liar grow p
Was there a time when the ocean wasn't salty?
Not as we know them today
Yes
love it
broo imagine the riches that must be there, and the history it contains
It's salty because it's made up of my tears....
I thought it was from all the marine life peeing and pooping in there
I believe the answer is Whale seaman (Ron Burgundy voice)
This doesn’t make as much sense as it should. Something tells me they still don’t know.
Because it died in a video game a million times and the freshwater lakes kept saying “skill issue”?
I thought it was from the sweat of school of fish that’s running around 😂
think of how much it would have to rain 3-4 bya to be able to form an ocean on top of a hot lava ball
pretty sure its aliens bob.
But no lakes are salty ?
Everyone's wrong. The salt is too oceany. How did our salt become contaminated with water? Hmmm!
We didn't KNOOOOooowwww.
Makes me wonder if these thermal vents are what killed the dinosaurs.
0:30 I find it weird that a submarine can get that close to ground ocean
Dont worry, Spielberg got to almost the bottom of the marianas trench, so yeah. We can explore the ocean, anyways, the ocean in general is not that deep, it averages a third to a half the depth of the marianas trench. Which is pretty accesible to us now
@@manuelurquiza7546 correct sir. however due to expensive tools, we really cant explore everything in the ocean, maybe we need like a "giga chad" scanner that can scan everything without diving.
I just visited the great lakes and there like an Ocean and there not salty either?
two questions remain: HOW does sodium-chloride form in NATURE.!???
does seawater contain sodium-chloride; or does it separately contain sodium ions attached to h2o and chlorine ions attached to h2o.?
I still dont know why
Are planet is made of salt. The dirt here is all the space dust on top.
Why is the Ocean salty?
0:33 Black what? (turn on subtitle)
Hi
Stop talking about fishes' sweat or tears, it's just all about minerals!
minerals' sweat!
this is the fourth video I watched on this subject, and none of them explain why there is so much salt - i.e. why so much sodium and chlorine? PS: I have a Ph. D in Physics...
billion years ago the earth has a lot of tectonic plates. Im mean we're talking about really "lot" of volcanoes. Actually it is what earth only have back those billion years. When these tectonic plates explode, they leave sulfuric rocks when it become dry. And of course sulfur has that salty elements.
Ahh what
hello
Where’s the black smokers in the great salt lake?
I thought snooki was right when she said it’s because of whale sperm
honestly.. that answer sounds like a far fetched fairy tale story.
They have no idea what the real answer is
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Noo its bcus of chaki chaki namak nikal
Black smokers? Just call em Newports! Ayo
ocean salty because a lot of people peeing in the water.
I always kinda figured it was because of minerals from volcanoes or ridges or something to that effect. Guess I was sorta right. *Pat back*
In a few heartbeats, a few seconds, all the blood in your body is cycled through your lungs. For our planet, it's 6 to 8 million years. It cycles all its water somewhere through its "heart"
is not acid rain?
It wouldn't be because the acid in acid rains would have to be neutralised by an alkali to produce any salt
Soo.... because minerals? 🤔
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So, next question: Why are egomaniacs so salty?
'cause there's salt in it.
Pp to
Its all because of Chakki..
Chakki chakki namak nikal
God
Y you so salty
Yes
always thought it was because of whale sperm ;)
its salty from the Japanese dumping all their old soy sauce into the ocean, duh
Not true
Only Allah knows why and how he made the sea water salty. And if he wants us to know, we will definitely know.
Salt in ocean came from the rocks on land. Because the rain that falls contains some carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. This cause the rainwater to be slightly acidic due to the carbonic acid ( carbon dioxide and water)
how it got salty is different to why it is salty. what is the biological reason?
Question not answered.
Make a banner for 'mission accomplished' anyway?
There's a verse in Quran which is revealed from the over 1400 years ago tells about the separation of rivers and seas.
"And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition. (al-Furqan, 25:53)
If that ain't scientifically proven, I don't know what is
Yes so a vague mythical bunch of nonsense then. And it sounds very much like this is actually a reference to the Hebrew myth of the firmament, the heavenly sea that floats above the clouds and occasionally leaks out to cause the rain. A lot of the Quran just cribs from Jewish mythology like this.
That's a terrible explanation. It's decomposition of sea life that causes salt. Prove me wrong.
Nope not even close its salty because God created it like that period,
This is incorrect mr. well seasoned professional Bob Ballard, Oceanographer of Geology, Chemistry and a doctorate... The ocean is so salty because all the continents are always looking down on the ocean. So sad.
The sea is salty because God knew what HE did. Marvellous are HIs works.
Allah makes the ocean salty by his tears.