Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — The Sea and a Drop of Water. [ARTICLE]

The Sea and a Drop of Water.

A German professor named Meinardus has amused himself with calculating how long a drop of water stays in the ocean before it is evaporated, and how soon it returns to the sea. Calculating —he does not say how—the total evaporation from the surface of the ocean and estimating the total (volume of water in the ocean, a drop of water entering the ocean will stay there 3,460 years, provided it awaits its turn to be evaporated. However, the professor admits that the surface water stands a good chance of getting ahead of its turn. The average stay out of the ocean is bnly twelve days before it has fallen in rain and run back again to the sea.