Is salt and water a mixture?
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it's a brine solution. as the salt dissolves on the water...
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No, Midge.  Salt has always been seen as a "purifying" agent.  Salt is first made holy by blessing (called the "Exorcism of Salt") first....then it is added to the water with the invocation "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."\n\nI've made gallons of Holy water...and nowhere in the rubrics is/are Jesus "tears" mentioned.\n\nGood guess though.  Don't teach it to the kids at catechism, though....it's not exactly true!!  ;-)
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the ocean is salty as it contains water colected from different sources such as rivers which bring with them different types of mineral salts before they mingle with the ocean.
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Everyone who has been to the beach knows that seawater is salty. Everyone also knows that fresh water in rain, rivers, and even ice is not salty. Why are some of Earth’s waters salty and others not? There are two clues that give us the answer. First, “fresh” water is not entirely free of dissolved salt. Even rainwater has traces of substances dissolved in it that were picked up during passage through the atmosphere. Much of this material that “washes out” of the atmosphere today is pollution, but there are also natural substances present.\n\nAs rainwater passes through soil and percolates through rocks, it dissolves some of the minerals, a process called weathering. This is the water we drink, and of course, we cannot taste the salt because its concentration is too low. Eventually, this water with its small load of dissolved minerals or salts reaches a stream and flows into lakes and the ocean. The annual addition of dissolved salts by rivers is only a tiny fraction of the total salt in the ocean. The dissolved salts carried by all the world’s rivers would equal the salt in the ocean in about 200 to 300 million years.\n\nA second clue to how the sea became salty is the presence of salt lakes such as the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea. Both are about 10 times saltier than seawater. Why are these lakes salty while most of the world’s lakes are not? Lakes are temporary storage areas for water. Rivers and streams bring water to the lakes, and other rivers carry water out of lakes. Thus, lakes are really only wide depressions in a river channel that have filled with water. Water flows in one end and out the other. \n\nThe Great Salt Lake, Dead Sea, and other salt lakes have no outlets. All the water that flows into these lakes escapes only by evaporation. When water evaporates, the dissolved salts are left behind. So a few lakes are salty because rivers carried salts to the lakes, the water in the lakes evaporated and the salts were left behind. After years and years of river inflow and evaporation, the salt content of the lake water built up to the present levels. The same process made the seas salty. Rivers carry dissolved salts to the ocean. Water evaporates from the oceans to fall again as rain and to feed the rivers, but the salts remain in the ocean. Because of the huge volume of the oceans, hundreds of millions of years of river input were required for the salt content to build to its present level.\n\nRivers are not the only source of dissolved salts. About twenty years ago, features on the crest of oceanic ridges were discovered that modified our view on how the sea became salty. These features, known as hydrothermal vents, represent places on the ocean floor where sea water that has seeped into the rocks of the oceanic crust, has become hotter, and has dissolved some of the minerals from the crust, now flows back into the ocean. With the hot water comes a large complement of dissolved minerals. Estimates of the amount of hydrothermal fluids now flowing from these vents indicate that the entire volume of the oceans could seep through the oceanic crust in about 10 million years. Thus, this process has a very important effect on salinity. The reactions between seawater and oceanic basalt, the rock of ocean crust, are not one-way, however; some of the dissolved salts react with the rock and are removed from the water.\n\nA final process that provides salts to the oceans is submarine volcanism, the eruption of volcanoes under water. This is similar to the previous process in that seawater is reacting with hot rock and dissolving some of the mineral constituents.\n\nWill the oceans continue to become saltier? Not likely. In fact the sea has had about the same salt content for many hundred of millions if not billions of years. The salt content has reached a steady state. Dissolved salts are being removed from seawater to form new minerals at the bottom of the ocean as fast as rivers and hydrothermal processes are
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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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I think if you put salt in water and electrisize it you can see salt react but dont trust me.
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No.  Any salt has a pH of 7.  Any acid has a pH of less than seven.  They're contradictory.  If you mixed some acid and some salt, I wouldn't call it salt any more.  I'd call it acid.
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duh !! salt in water = salt water . salt = thirst . thirst = water . go drink some !!
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It is a mixture. A solution has ions in it and is possible only in liquid phase. A compound is a solid material that is formed when the materials react with each other. Even after they react they form mixed compounds. It is not suspension.
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Table Salt is a binary compound.
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Sea water is salty because it has dissolved salty solids. These have come from active volcanoes on the floors of the oceans.
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It's not about which is finer, it's about chemistry and attraction between molecules, I would say salt dissolves better
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Lets use the example of salt again. NaCl. What happens is this. Both water molecules and salt molecules are ionized molecules. When salt is added to water, the ionic bond breaks apart as the positively charged Na is attracted to the negatively charged OH in the water and the negatively charged Cl is attracted to the positively charged H in the water.
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Additional information is needed.  The mixture could contain one atom of Potassium and the rest Sodium or the reverse.\n\nThe total mass of the sample does not tell you anything about the relative mix.
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yes... it's called reverse osmosis.\n\nBasically it pushes the sea water through a filter that doesn't allow the salt to pass.\n\nAlso there is turning the water into steam and then condensing it into liquid again.  This leaves the salt behind as it is converted to steam.\n\nDesalinization is usually expensive and not very efficient either.
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There are all sorts of salts.\nIn common usage, 'salt' refers to sodium chloride. Table salt is refined sodium chloride together with various additives, e.g. anti-caking agents, iodides, etc.\nMarine/sea salt is sodium chloride from the solar evaporation of sea water. It contains associated impurities such as calcium sulphate and magnesium chloride.\nWhen I did a Google search with the term "sea salt"+"marine salt" most of the references were to do with products for marine aquariums, so I think that the phrase 'marine salt' is used to describe stuff mostly intended for aquariums whilst the term 'sea salt' is for human consumption. If this is the case then I would expect 'sea salt' to be more strictly controlled as far as imputities are concerned.
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are you trying to turn saltwater back into separate salt and water? you need to heat the saltwater which will make the water evaporate. The salt won't evaporate so it'll stay in the container. If you need the water, you'll need to have a surface to let it condense on