If the ocean is salt how have the arctic ice caps not melted yet?
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Harleyboyaj
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The melting of the ice caps and things like the gulfstream keep the salinity in check.
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Do you think the ice a caps are frozen ocean or rain, sleet and snow that have accumilated over time. salt water can freeze based on the salinity & temp... then precipatation adds most of the ice caps...
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ever made homemade ice cream with ice and salt...freezes harder than just fresh ice
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It's really cold there. Salt only lowers the melting point it doesn't eliminate it. Also most of those caps aren't in contact with the salt water.
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Salt can only depress the freezing temperature of water to 0° F. However, the wintertime temperatures in the arctic can get down to -58° F. So, sea water has no problem freezing at these temperatures.
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theyre starting to melt : (
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What century are you living in man. They are melting at an alarming rate. Parts of Greenland are now visible that have never been seen before even when we go to the time of the Vikings. ேPhone Call௫ It's for you from the Earth. It's a distress call.
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I don't understand the question-at all.
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The bottoms melt and the tops are replentished.
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