the.com/seawater
Earth's sweat, 97% of all water, and the reason thirst is a planetary joke.
means The salty water that fills Earth's oceans and seas, roughly 3.5% dissolved salts by weight, undrinkable to humans without treatment.
from A straightforward Old English compound: 'sea' plus 'water,' joining 'sæ' and 'wæter,' both ancient Germanic words with cousins across the Germanic languages. No hidden story here — just two of the oldest, plainest words in English stuck together because the thing they described needed naming.
- salt content
- about 35 grams of salt per liter
- density trick
- denser than fresh water, so you float easier
- freezing point
- freezes around -1.9 C, not 0
- gold inside
- contains trace gold, too diffuse to mine