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The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions (1915)
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The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions
by Rudolph John Bodmer
⇥ All water that comes into the oceans by way of the rivers and other streams contains salt. The amount is so very small for a given quantity of water that it cannot be tasted. But all this river water is poured into the oceans eventually at some point. After it reaches the oceans, the water is evaporated by the action of the sun. When the sun picks up the water in the form of moisture, it does not take up any of the solid substances which the water contained as it came in from the rivers, and while there is about as much water in the ocean all the time and about as much also in the air in the form of moisture also, the ocean never gets fuller; the solid substances from the river waters keep piling up in the ocean and float about in the water there. The salt which is in the river water has been left behind by the sun when it evaporated the water in the ocean for so long that the amount of salt has become very noticeable. The moisture which the sun takes into the air from the ocean is eventually turned back to the earth again in the form of rain. This process of evaporation and precipitation in the form of rain is going on all the time. When the water which is in the form of rain strikes the earth, it is pure water. It sinks into the ground and on the way picks up some salt, finds its way into a river sooner or later, and then evidently gets back into the ocean. All this time it has been carrying the tiny bit of salt which it picked up in going through the ground. But when it reaches the ocean again and is taken up by the sun, it leaves its salt behind and so the salt from countless drops of water is constantly being left in the ocean as it goes up into the air. This has been going on for countless ages and the amount of salt has been increasing in the ocean all the time, so that the sea is becoming saltier and saltier.🏁
Submitted by ColorfulToucans - 12/27/2025
Book Non-Fiction 4.70 Ranked
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The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions
by Rudolph John Bodmer
⇥ All water that comes into the oceans by way of the rivers and other streams contains salt. The amount is so very small for a given quantity of water that it cannot be tasted. But all this river water is poured into the oceans eventually at some point. After it reaches the oceans, the water is evaporated by the action of the sun. When the sun picks up the water in the form of moisture, it does not take up any of the solid substances which the water contained as it came in from the rivers, and while there is about as much water in the ocean all the time and about as much also in the air in the form of moisture also, the ocean never gets fuller; the solid substances from the river waters keep piling up in the ocean and float about in the water there. The salt which is in the river water has been left behind by the sun when it evaporated the water in the ocean for so long that the amount of salt has become very noticeable. The moisture which the sun takes into the air from the ocean is eventually turned back to the earth again in the form of rain. This process of evaporation and precipitation in the form of rain is going on all the time. When the water which is in the form of rain strikes the earth, it is pure water. It sinks into the ground and on the way picks up some salt, finds its way into a river sooner or later, and then evidently gets back into the ocean. All this time it has been carrying the tiny bit of salt which it picked up in going through the ground. But when it reaches the ocean again and is taken up by the sun, it leaves its salt behind and so the salt from countless drops of water is constantly being left in the ocean as it goes up into the air. This has been going on for countless ages and the amount of salt has been increasing in the ocean all the time, so that the sea is becoming saltier and saltier.🏁
Submitted by ColorfulToucans - 12/27/2025
Book Non-Fiction 4.70 Ranked