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hanjar (hanjar@manjar.com) wrote:

: Rivers and lakes on land are fed by precipitation, which is not salty.  Most
: salt that is picked up by water on land eventually drains to the ocean.

It works like boiler chemistry. As water evapourates, it rises, condenses, and 
falls back down. Now, as the land gets rained on, a small amount of salt is 
picked up. Lakes are not salted up IF there is drainage from that lake to an 
ocean. The Dead Sea and Great Salt Lake lack a drainage and rivers add water 
to evapourate. Becuse the rivers have that little salt, over time, it salts up 
the lake or the oceans. 

If your home has steam heat, you'll probably know that you have to 
periodically drain the boiler to control the content of crap in the water. 
Water enters a boiler and boils off and any crap in the water stays in the 
boiler and it builds up. This gets critical as fuck in steam powerplant 
boilers. They use various things to try to purify water to use as feedwater, 
and yet they still must periodically drain the boiler. Even with a closed loop 
like a heating system, inevitable steam leaks necessitate adding feedwater. 

The ocean salinity works the same way; you can't drain the oceans. The salting 
up of the oceans shows that the process was going on for a long time. 

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