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An explanation of why seawater is salty.
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Learn why urinating in the ocean is not chemically damaging to it.
© American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn about plankton, microscopic life-forms that drift in ocean currents and form...
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Learn why fresh water and seawater have different freezing points.
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Clear ocean water near a beach on Grand Bahama Island in The Bahamas.
© Philip Coblentz—Digital Vision/Getty Images
Members of the New Zealand Defence Force pumping seawater into holding tanks on Funafuti...
Alastair Grant/AP
Conceptual diagram comparing the state of carbonates in the oceans under the lower-acid...
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Figure 3: The absorption coefficient for liquid water as a function of frequency.
From J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, copyright © 1975 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The process of saltwater intrusion into a coastal aquifer depends on how much water...
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