Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Oceanography / August 2003

These are all things that are easy to find in a library of any merit.

1.  Look in a BOOK on physical chemistry.

2.  Look in a BOOK on oceanography.

3.  USE your brain. If that fails, look in a BOOK on physical chemistry.

Bill

Is the reason for the project that you learn about desalinazation, or that
you learn how to find information?

Also check ou this site:

http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/msl111/notes/chem.html

I'd stick with breast milk.  It contains DHA, unlike formulas.

It is a common misconception that water "boils".  Actually, it passes
from a partially transparent state to a fully transparent state.  The
Amazing Randy has used this principle of physics to debunk some of the
more popular "magic" tricks, such as the "disappearance" of the Statue
of Liberty (it was done on a rainy day when the statue was covered with
rainwater).  Even Ben Franklin, who said "a watched pot never boils",
knew this fact.  The only thing that gives water any opaqueness at all
is the biota within it.  When salt is added, this kills off all the
life forms in the water (ever seen what it can do to a slug?) and makes
the water turn transparent faster.  The rate at which x pounds of salt
added to u gallons of water causes this to happen can be determined by
a series of eigenfunctions f(u) sub n, which equate to the integral of
e to the x power:

/ x
\e  = f(u)
/         n

The National Council on Liquids (NaCl) has received government grants
for many years to concentrate their work on seawater.  No one knows why.

Very slowly.  A coloscope is often required to observe the process.

Many attempts have been made to lower the atmospheric pressure to 0.1
atm.  Should anybody ever be successful at doing this, the latent heat
of vaporization of water will be the least of our problems.

Any time, droogie!