why is the sea water is sour?
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because it has NaCl in it
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It could be that lol or it may be due to the bacteria that lives within the body of water, such as blue algae. :)
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Water with a high salt concentration, and plasma (electrically charged gas)
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SEA WATER IS SALTY WHILST TAP WATER HAS BEEN TREATED TO REMOVE IMPURITIES.
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The density is different - sea water being more dense than fresh.\n\nFreezing point (lower for sea water) and boiling point (higher for sea water) would be slightly different.\n\nElectrical conductivity would be different (higher for sea water).\n\nAll these things are different - but the differences are also all due to the salinity difference that you mentioned.
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"Ocean water is  a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled igneous rocks of the Earth's crust by weathering and erosion, the wearing down of mountains, and the dissolving action of rains and streams which transported their mineral washings to the sea. Some of the ocean's salts have been dissolved from rocks and sediments below its floor. Other sources of salts include the solid and gaseous materials that escaped from the Earth's crust through volcanic vents or that originated in the atmosphere."
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the water in the tank not boul is good drinking water
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The water makes it harder for light to reach the fabric. Kind of like when you look at the ocean and the water is a dark blue the farther out you look.
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Why is the sea supposed to be on fire? You might want to add some detail.\nAnd besides seawater is not purely H20. There is Sodium Chloride, which makes the sea water salty. Plus there is plenty of mineral, garbage, fecis,etc. which makes the composition of sea water to be very complex.
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Why is the Ocean Salty?\n\nAll water, even rain water, contains dissolved chemicals which scientists call "salts." But not all water tastes salty. Water is fresh or salty according to individual judgment, and in making this decision man is more convinced by his sense of taste than by a laboratory test. It is one's taste buds that accept one water and reject another.\nA simple experiment illustrates this. Fill three glasses with water from the kitchen faucet. Drink from one and it tastes fresh even though some dissolved salts are naturally present. Add a pinch of table salt to the second, and the water may taste fresh or slightly salty depending on a personal taste threshold and on the amount of salt held in a "pinch." But add a teaspoon of salt to the third and your taste buds vehemently protest that this water is too salty to drink; this glass of water has about the same salt content as a glass of sea water.\nObviously, the ocean, in contrast to the water we use daily, contains unacceptable amounts of dissolved chemicals; it is too salty for human consumption. \n\nHOW SALTY IS THE OCEAN?...\nHow salty the ocean is, however, defies ordinary comprehension. Some scientists estimate that the oceans contain as much as 50 quadrillion tons (50 million billion tons) of dissolved solids.\n\nIf the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick, about the height of a 40-story office building. The saltiness of the ocean is more understandable when compared with the salt content of a fresh-water lake. For example, when 1 cubic foot of sea water evaporates it yields about 2.2 pounds of salt, but 1 cubic foot of fresh water from Lake Michigan contains only one one-hundredth (0.01) of a pound of salt, or about one sixth of an ounce. Thus, sea water is 220 times saltier than the fresh lake water. What arouses the scientist's curiosity is not so much why the ocean is salty, but why it isn't fresh like the rivers and streams that empty into it. Further, what is the origin of the sea and of its "salts"? And how does one explain ocean water's remarkably uniform chemical composition? To these and related questions, scientists seek answers with full awareness that little about the oceans is understood.\n\n\nIllustration: Sources of salts in the ocean.\n\nTHE ORIGIN OF THE SEA...\nIn popular language, "ocean" and "sea" are used interchangeably. Today's seas are the North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans and the Antarctic waters or seas.\nScientists believe that the seas are as much as 500 million years old because animals that lived then occur as fossils in rocks which once were under ancient seas. There are several theories about the origin of the seas, but no single theory explains all aspects of this puzzle. Many earth scientists agree with the hypothesis that both the atmosphere and the oceans have accumulated gradually through geologic time from some process of "degassing" of the Earth's interior. According to this theory, the ocean had its origin from the prolonged escape of water vapor and other gases from the molten igneous rocks of the Earth to the clouds surrounding the cooling Earth. After the Earth's surface had cooled to a temperature below the boiling point of water, rain began to fall and continued to fall for centuries. As the water drained into the great hollows in the Earth's surface, the primeval ocean came into existence. The forces of gravity prevented the water from leaving the planet.\n\nSOURCES OF THE SALTS...\nSea water has been defined as a weak solution of almost everything. Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas. Most of the ocean's salts were derived from gradual processes such the breaking up of the cooled ign
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it does but it's diluted.Some bodies of water have higher salt content than others.
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There are different occurances in nature that are labelled "Red Tide". \n\nOne is caused by an over abundance of plankton in the ocean. This makes the water stinky and could make you sick if ingested.  \n\nThe other is caused by chemicals used by farmers to get rid of pests. It drains down into the ground water and eventually ends up in the ocean. It kills just about anything living in the water.
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It could also be the wind going in different directions pushing the top layer of the water in different directions which in turn, gives you different reflections which can appear to be separated.
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There are many reasons, it may be how the light is hitting the sea, the color of the sand, pollution or lack thereof, coral reefs, currents, and many other reasons.  Here is a great link about why water appears blue.  This may help answer your question.
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Sea water from the world's oceans has an average salinity of approximately 3.5%. (35g/L). This salt is accumulated in the sea water from leaching and runoff from weathering rocks and soil on the continents.
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Coz the water comes from the Pacific and goes into the Atlantic
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because of the gravitational pull on the water, it comes down, not straight