Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — The Salt of the Sea. [ARTICLE]

The Salt of the Sea.

Roughly speaking, if you take the salt out of the sea water you deprive it of a thirtieth of its weight. On that masis one-thirtieth of the entire weight of all the sea water In the world is salt, and, as salt and water are about the same in bulk, we may estimate also that, by bulk, one-thirtieth of the huge mass of the ocean is pur* salt What does this bring us to?

Taking the 130,000,000 Odd square miles of the five oceans to average a mile and a half (Jeep, we have in them alone 200,000,000 cubic miles of salt water. A thirtieth of this should give us the bulk of salt contained in the great waters of the globe. Rounding the figures, we get something like 7,000,000 cubic miles of salt. If it were taken wit and spread over the surface of the six continents they would be covered with Its snowy powder to a depth of ever two hundred feet. To put It another way, if all the earth were salt water, there would be enough salt in It to make two globes of solid salt very little smaller than our moon.