Ocean of grainy salts

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Green like algae and grainy as the sand, these pictures show salt from actual salt water.

The ocean is a life source to us! From the deep and almost unending tides,

we extract water through evaporation and leave one single element from the mixture: salt, one of

our most dependent elements for surviving!

 

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Why is it that these minerals are in a light greenish color? Isn't it supposed to be clear or white?

Well yes that is true, normally the salts we use at the dinner table are white. However when looking at it through a microscope, the light shining beneath actually reflects in the salt and thus gives it the unusual color we don't see everyday in salt.

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 Now you can see why your mouth twists when you get ocean water in your mouth! There are so much salt in the water that it is impossible to count them. I always wonder: How could the salt have gotten into the ocean in the first place and why it is just in the ocean!



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Further more information is
http://www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/seawater.htm