elemental makeup of saltwater
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Hello,
Welcome to Science Buddies. Your best bet for a general question like that is to use a web search. Try typing "sea water composition" or similar terms into your favorite search engine. If you have more specific questions about how to do an internet search, or about your science fair project, please feel free to ask.
Good luck!
Welcome to Science Buddies. Your best bet for a general question like that is to use a web search. Try typing "sea water composition" or similar terms into your favorite search engine. If you have more specific questions about how to do an internet search, or about your science fair project, please feel free to ask.
Good luck!
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Scott I checked "seawater" on acessscience. the second hit(seawater elements geochemical distribution) said the compound varies. however there is a link on that page you might be able to make sense out of (the link is "seawater").
JIM B.
If you can't find the information online, go to you local marine fish store. Look at the ingredients in Instant Ocean, or Tropic Marin (or a number of other) salt water mixes for aquariums. You will need to take into account the dilution with water to get the actual concentration (the bags are labelled with how much water they need to be diluted with), but when done, they closely approximate sea water concentrations.
Perhaps their web sites have the same information.
Perhaps their web sites have the same information.
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The textbook An Introduction to the World's Oceans contains an entire chapter discussing the composition of seawater. An outline of the chapter is available here: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/d ... apter6.pdf. The text's homepage is here: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0 ... ent_view0/.
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