#799 How is salt mined?
How is salt mined? In the same way that any other mineral is mined. There are three ways of producing salt. It can be mined out of the ground, it…
How is salt mined? In the same way that any other mineral is mined. There are three ways of producing salt. It can be mined out of the ground, it…
Why is the Dead Sea so salty? Because the sea evaporates very quickly and there is only one source of freshwater coming in. The Dead Sea is not actually a…
I learned this today. How does a desalination plant work? A desalination plant makes freshwater from seawater by using reverse osmosis. Humans and animals obviously cannot drink salt water. Fish…
I learned this today. Fish that live in saltwater have evolved to draw in large amounts of water through osmosis to replace the water that they lose because of the…
I learned this today. Salt preserves food by removing the water and vinegar preserves food by increasing its acidity. The refrigerator was invented in 1834. Before that, people used ice…