Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
There is salt in the earth.
Salt dissolves in water.
If earth was covered completely, there would be even more salt in it.
Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
There is salt in the earth.
Salt dissolves in water.
If earth was covered completely, there would be even more salt in it.
HotDayBreeze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, but not all that salt is in contact with water. There are huge deposits of salt under the Mediterranean, yet they have not dissolved into the ocean. You have to actually strip away the non-salt components to get enough water to salt contact to actually dissolve enough salt to make that much water salty.