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Our oceans don’t technically contain salt, but the ions salt is made of play a critical role in planet-wide processes that make the Earth habitable.
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- Salt: chemical compounds made of positively- and negatively-charged particles called “ions” like sodium and chloride
- Convection current: the movement of fluid, like water, due to a difference in temperature and/or density
- Hydrothermal vent: a fissure on the seafloor that takes in dense ocean water and discharges water heated by volcanic activity below the seafloor.
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Earley, Joseph E. "Why there is no salt in the sea." Foundations of Chemistry 7.1 (2005): 85-102. link.springer.com/article/10....
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@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

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@andyfriederichsen 2 года назад

You gotta delete the bot comments on your videos.

@user-vq5qw1eg3n 2 года назад

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

@@andyfriederichsen Doing our best to do so, RU-vid doesn't seem to have a "delete all comments from this user" feature which makes it more challenging.

@coolmandan0303 2 года назад

I'm confused on the part of "if the ion concentration decreases, the poles and the equator could be uninhabitable". But in your diagram (at 2:24) you show that the polar ice caps would increase - which would increase the ion density... right? So wouldn't it be a self-regulating system?

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

@@coolmandan0303 Historically, this sort of thing can cause ice ages that last thousands of years before everything regulates back to "normal" or a new normal at least. Essentially, the world could become uninhabitable for most of life as it exists now for long enough to cause mass extinctions.

@happy06810 2 года назад

when i saw the title i told myself "If he tell me that sea isn't salty because ions are disolved i'm going to be mad ." Now i'm salty :)

@Merlincat007 2 года назад

No you're full of ions!

@danielculver2209 2 года назад

@@Merlincat007 Bugger I was gonna comment that xD

@tiaxanderson9725 2 года назад

Yea.. It's like those quantum woo-woo crowd going "You're not actually touching anything". Though I'd say that crowd is going another half-step further by arguing a concept out of usefullness

@nusratparveen82 2 года назад

@@Merlincat007 no you’re iony!

@mathewcherrystone9479 2 года назад

"Yeet" yourself in the ocean then please. It needs the salt... sorry ions ;)

@danielclv97 2 года назад

wait, if the ocean currents chease to exist, or starts to go weaker, due to the melting ice, and that causes the poles to get colder, from the lack of warm water, and freeze again, wouldn't that restart these ocean currents? Like a negative feedback loop

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

This is definitely a possibility! The science of what could happen is really complicated because there are so many interrelated processes, but what you’re describing has happened in Earth’s history, called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where the Earth bounced between periods of warming and cooling. Unfortunately while the warming effects that melt the ice can happen as quickly as decades, the freezing “Ice Age” periods can (and have) lasted hundreds or thousands of years. Several mass extinctions are at least partly attributed to slowing/stopping of currents that left the oceans low in nutrients and oxygen.

@tonyyoung8477 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth That sounds really interesting, can you make a follow-up video on that? Until then I will take your comment with a grain of salt.

@yourcrazybear 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth Ice age periods lasts much longer due to the milankovitch cycles.

@d.-_-b 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth mass extinction does sound bad ... Untill you watch some parts of the internet. Maybe the earth is deliberately working on this project and humans have no effect on it.

@52flyingbicycles 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth so I suppose one risk of climate change is “we have no idea what happens long term if you warm the earth this fast but considering the downsides of rapid climate events in the past we don’t want to find out”

@qwertyTRiG 2 года назад

I knew about the ions, but the way they connect to ocean currents was new to me. Thanks.

@toolbaggers 2 года назад

It's called thermohaline circulation.

@random-kz8iy 2 года назад

@@angelina-ey5fk Go away

@danilooliveira6580 2 года назад

that is basically the plot of The Day After Tomorrow. the ocean currents stop and the poles freeze.

@kbee225 2 года назад

Nometry

@flyboy1331 2 года назад

Ok salt water = salt dissolved (or ionized as you say) into water. No average person in their right minds thinks of salt water as having large chunk of salt sitting at the bottom. This is not analytical chemistry.

@CaptainObvious0000 2 года назад

hope they did not say that, dissolving and ionization are two different things.

@Llorx 2 года назад

Thank you

@adamwishneusky 2 года назад

Dissolved ionic solids like table salt ARE free ions

@antham8112 2 года назад

The initial clickbait explanation was stupid, we still call it salt in aqueous solution. The rest of the video was interesting though. You have a reputation of good videos now, you don't need desperate click-baits

@palliyil 2 года назад

Yeah. It was so disheartening to see this. I almost skipped watching this video because I knew it would be some lame-ass interpretation for clickbait. Did complete injustice to the actual interesting stuff talked about in the video

@Nick02718 2 года назад

I'll take being pedantic for $1000

@Redingold 2 года назад

This nitpicky pedantic title isn't even accurate. Chemical equilibrium occurs when the forwards and backwards reactions occur at the same rate. The backwards reactions, of ions forming into salt, still occurs in saltwater, you even show it happening to demonstrate crystallisation of salt in the Dead Sea. This still happens in seawater, it just gets cancelled out by the immediate dissolution of those salt molecules back into ions, but those salt molecules are still forming and are still there, in at least some concentration, at all times. You might as well say that water doesn't actually contain water, because what happens is the H2O molecules self-ionise into hydronium and hydroxide ions. It would not only be stupid to say that, it would also be wrong, because the reverse happens too, where hydroxide and hydronium ions react to form H2O molecules, so there's always at least some H2O molecules present. The salt thing is wrong for the exact same reason.

@schuldigom 2 года назад

So the bus does actually have salt? Fascinating

@BioTechproject27 2 года назад

And even if we were to ignore this rejoining of ions, we still have large salt crystals everywhere. Like calcium carbonate for example, being solid in the form of coral reefs, mussels, etc. But it's a great click-baiting title that at least has its educational purpose on climate change and its relation to ocean currents.

@michaelnacht3573 2 года назад

I think you mean hydroxide ions instead of hydronium. But otherwise I agree entirely.

@Redingold 2 года назад

@@michaelnacht3573 You're right, I do.

@Redingold 2 года назад

Wait, it's more complicated than that, because the protons themselves bond with water molecules to form hydronium ions.

@martinkasse1932 2 года назад

In germany we would call you a "Krümelkacker" or "Erbsenzähler" for declairing someting to the unnecessary detal. Of cause there is no Salt in the form of cristals in the water, but that Salt dissociates in water is not the fact that i hoped for when reading the title. But the video is good in terms of explaining the problem of deciesing ocean currents.

@majorfallacy5926 2 года назад

or i-Tüpferlreiter oder Korinthenkacker. Damn, we have a lot of words for nitpicker.

@lonestarr1490 2 года назад

But it's an important distinction to be aware of in order to understand how ocean currents work (and why they might cease to work in the not so far future).

@Kram1032 2 года назад

Haarspalter

@printchannel_name3371 2 года назад

My brain hurts reading you comment 😅

@kingplunger6033 2 года назад

I have never heard the term Krümelkacker in my life, 24 years in germany

@BananaMike780 2 года назад

this is the most pedantic "uhm ackchully" science video I've ever seen

@NikitkaDreamer 2 года назад

1. Dissolve a tsbp of salt in a glass of water 2. Drink your "not salty" water, genious 3. Enjoy your day

@mad_max21 2 года назад

If you guys want to be pedant about it, I can also point out that you guys literally said there's crystallized salt in the Dead Sea.

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

The Dead Sea is not part of the ocean, it’s a lake.

@nerobernardino88 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth The title wasn't about oceans now was it? You guys did write "There's no Salt in the Sea" ;D

@buddythemoth 2 года назад

@Nero Bernadino the sea is usually a term used to describe the ocean? Also the title of the video is "what if the _ocean_ wasn't salty?" so wdym srry to be 'that guy' i just felt like pointing that out.

@nerobernardino88 2 года назад

@@buddythemoth He changed the title lmao The OG one was: "There's No Salt In The Sea" and thus I was pedantic myself when pointing out that they wrote Sea and not Ocean, thus making the Dead *Sea* a valid item lol

@PIECEofTOAST 2 года назад

@Lassi Kinnunen 81 If this is such "horrible" clickbait in your eyes you should probably just stop using youtube altogether. You are not going to find any successful youtubers who don't title their videos like this (or worse).

@Merlincat007 2 года назад

This is the best description I've seen of how ocean currents may be disrupted by climate change and how that could really suddenly mess up the world as we know it.

@marvalice3455 2 года назад

*clears throat* the ocean currents are mostly driven be temperature, salinity is just an additional factor. if this video were accurate about the effects of climate change on the ocean, there would be _no life at all_. all the co2 being dumped into the atmosphere, originally came from the atmosphere. sure, we get some bonus carbon from volcanoes, but they are not a significant source of it at this point in geological history. all the co2 from fossil fuels was in the carbon cycle when life was young. and actually much more that is currently locked in sedimentary and metamorphic rock. the vast majority of the earth's life, it had _no ice caps whatsoever_ yet the oceans have always had plenty of life in them. while the physics in this video are fascinating, and it is an important thing to watch in our ocean, this video is the sort of thing that makes people think climate change is a hoax, because it's so obviously not entirely honest.

@Merlincat007 2 года назад

@@marvalice3455 Got a good source on that?

@marvalice3455 2 года назад

@@Merlincat007 a source on what? that convection exists? or that most of prehistory was a green house earth? or that fossil fuels are made of living things? I wasn't aware IO had to source those things. be specific pls

@FumbleSquid 2 года назад

@@marvalice3455 The point is that currently existing life would struggle, not that there wouldn't eventually be life in those conditions like there was before. It takes a very long time for life to evolve to tolerate such changes, and we are on track to change everything in just a few centuries. That's not enough time at all! We are going to see a mass extinction event because of the rapid changes, obviously in a couple million years life will be chugging along, albeit not great. The point is to prevent a massive catastrophe, not just for non-human life, but humans too.

@nonec384 2 года назад

yee no , life was diferent back than it was used to that condintion we and most other life arent also the sun was just colder if normal carbon cupture remains the earth will be dead and cold in 600 mil years

@toolbaggers 2 года назад

*thermohaline circulation is the name of the flow of the salt and heat in the oceans explained n this vid

@andyfriederichsen 2 года назад

Next video: "Chickens Are Not Birds"

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

You joke but we have a whole playlist like this ru-vid.com/group/PLElB7nLNHZvjHCDnyuEPu8MLVAV2Ta9ug

@generalbaguette3489 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth please stop, with click bait titles you are making people not like these subjects and the people that dont understand what you are doing can possibly not trust science as a whole because of this experience

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 2 года назад

🤔 Indeed - they are domesticated dinosaurs . . . !

@generalbaguette3489 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth also this video is click bait because its only true in a technicality The other videos you listed are not in a technicality, they are more facts

@themoonhunter 2 года назад

"There is no salt in the sea". You crazy bruh, are you drunk? Technicallities doesn't count.

@Just4Kixs 2 года назад

I love how MinuteEarth have all of these hidden Pokémon on their videos whenever they can place one.

@Glockenspheal 2 года назад

And Professor E. Gadd there at the beginning.

@ThomasBomb45 2 года назад

Carbon footprints are a way to shift the conversation away from social change and put responsibility on individuals. Some parts of climate change we can control, but collective action is more important

@romanski5811 2 года назад

Agreed. There needs to be an appropriate carbon price attached to production. But simultaneously the poorest people (bottom 80 %) need to be given something like a climate dividend proportionally such that they can still afford to live. And also, things like public transportation and renewable energy grid needs to be expanded. When it comes to buying meat, that doesn't have much impact on an individual level, so avoiding to buy meat should be done because of ethical reasons and not because of climate reasons.

@ollllj 2 года назад

there is no salt in water, but there is salt in the water. got it!

@bramvanduijn8086 2 года назад

The moment you dissolve a salt, it is no longer a salt for an even better reason than why when your ice melts, it is no longer ice. You see, ice only changes phase, while salt actually changes chemical composition.

@kennyholmes5196 2 года назад

@@bramvanduijn8086 Not quite. It may break its' ionic bonds, yes, but there is no change in the chemical composition of the substance that gets dissolved, only a change from (s) to (aq).

@nonsequitor 2 года назад

Love you guys but that's not what take "with a grain of salt" means 😳 if you take global warming with a grain (or pinch of you're not in the USA) of salt, then you'd be downplaying the significance of climate change. Like a moron. 🙏

@ImMamba 2 года назад

Well this has the opposite effect of global warming, at least in the poles

@yourcrazybear 2 года назад

Considering how there is no proof for a climate crisis of sorts, it would be moronic to overreact in this instance.

@kakahass8845 2 года назад

@@yourcrazybear Even tough your source of "Trust me bro" is compelling I would like an actual scientific article showing climate change isn't a crisis.

@nonsequitor 2 года назад

@@kakahass8845 😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Although he probably didn't even do as much "research" as having a single bro talk .... Just listened to info wars and swallowed like a good boy

@kakahass8845 2 года назад

@@ImMamba I also like how he believes in climate change but not that it's dangerous like we're reaching new levels of cognitive dissonance here.

@andrewk9267 2 года назад

Love that chipper music playing while they casually describe the destruction of the system of ocean currents and the collapse of the global food web

@TheMightyZwom 2 года назад

"water molecules have a negatively-charged end and a positively-charged end, making them work like tiny magnets that thear the salt's positive and negative ions apart" - no, that's not how magnets work...

@wolfwind7654 2 года назад

I've been meaning to ask my aquatic science teacher how salinity works but kept forgetting to, Thank you 😄😄😄

@superraegun2649 2 года назад

I know it would be an extreme technicality. Still interesting learning about how the salt concentration remains in balance.

@elliotcowell3139 2 года назад

this is kinda like saying "there's no egg in a fried egg it's just protein" like yeah okay but it makes you sound like a bit of a bell end

@GetThePun 2 года назад

They mean when things dissolve, they don't even keep their chemical composition from before. When salt (NaCl) dissolves in water, it separates into Na+ and Cl- ions, very different than having NaCl as an intact molecule in the water. NaCl is (a type of) salt, but when dissolved become Na+ and Cl-, which are not salt at all.

@justarandomdood 2 года назад

If you separate the hydrogen and oxygen from each other in a water molecule, then give the oxygen to someone in the hospital and a balloon filled with the hydrogen that was separated, would you say that you simply gave them a lot of water?

@CaptainObvious0000 2 года назад

@@justarandomdood dissolving a compound and atomizing water are two unrelated things.

@elliotcowell3139 2 года назад

@@GetThePun yeah i understood that part but it's still a clickbait title

@adrianblake8876 Год назад

@@GetThePun It's basic chemistry that salts are actually called "ionic compounds" that break into their seperate ions when liquified (either via melting or dissolving, which some languages use the same word for both)... Heck, the traits with which we identify salts are those that define the ions themselves, not the solid compound...

@hokardjo 2 года назад

The end is like the scenario of "The Day After Tomorrow". One of my favorite apocalypse-movie

@josueromerotorrico4453 2 года назад

As a chemist, my opinion is that using a technicism like this one as the basis for a video is a very bad idea. A dissolved compound is still a compound. Even if is "technically" true what you are saying. Not only this fails to explain how solubility works, it could also make it more confusing for some people. Its not like the water is turning NaCl into pure Na and pure Cl2. Feels like you only wanted to call them ions to sound smart. But man, I would love to see the sea constantly exploding because of all that "pure", metallic sodium , and also covered by toxic chloride gas. If chemistry worked like that, I mean.

@slyar 2 года назад

You sound like youre new to this channel

@brianthomson3095 2 года назад

Best punny ending (so far)! And I learned something, like I always do when I watch MinuteEarth. Thanks.

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

Thanks for the support!

@IIARROWS 2 года назад

Not really, the pun in the end means the exact opposite of what it was meant to suggest...

@RealRomplayer 2 года назад

The speaker in this video is clearly a Dad.

@venkatkrisshna 2 года назад

It was a pathetic effort at best.

@jobansand 2 года назад

It's really interesting how the ions are affected by global warming. Thanks for sharing that. But I think the video title is a bit overly misleading and clickbaity. Please don't do that.

@ArifRWinandar 2 года назад

Sometimes I think MinuteEarth videos are made with puns first and the rest of the video later.

@CaptainObvious0000 2 года назад

pretty disappointed by the semantics/ bait. why not go further and say there are no sodium or chloride ions there as well, because technically it's only hydrate complexes. and technically, water is not H2O but only mostly H2O as well as complexed autoprotolysis products. we could go on forever but what's the point...

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

Mainly because we like to keep our videos short, but I’m liking the rabbit hole. There are all sorts of fun ways to learn about the structure and interactions in our world, but poking fun at how we humans organize information is one I definitely enjoy.

@__nog642 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth I think the video is talking with too much authority, not really poking fun. You definitively proclaim "there is no salt in the oceans" rather than "the ions in salt are separated from each other in the oceans so they're not even really a compound, and you could argue that it's not even salt anymore".

@alphaapple1375 2 года назад

The Pokémon featured in this video are Carvanha and Shellder, the Savage and Bivalve Pokémon. Carvanha evolves into Sharpedo the Brutal Pokémon. Shellder evolves into Cloyster, also called the Bivalve Pokémon.

@KuruGDI 2 года назад

It's so much more fun to use my heavily oversized Doge RAM, fly to the other side of the globe for vacation and eat all the meat in the world when I know that it's not a problem because I have wren. With just a few extra bucks I don't have to worry about my lifestyle or do anything to change it - wren got my emissions covered. Thank you wren 😘

@KuruGDI 2 года назад

@@michaelenquist3728 I decided to have an extra subscription so that I have a green feeling when I die and get cremated with natural gas. *THANKS WREN!!* 🙃

@shortstacksport 2 года назад

Wouldn't be a minute Earth video without a hyperbolic doomsday prophecy.

@carrioki 2 года назад

Aren't the poles already uninhabitable? How hot does the earth have to get for ocean currents to stop entirely?

@vicovideocompilationsetc6991 2 года назад

Uninhabitable you say? Tell that to the organisms that make the poles their habitats.

@megadestroyer454 2 года назад

Regardless of what we do, if corporations still continue to pollute we will forever be under the threat of extinction.

@nicholasamemazior3066 2 года назад

Well guys, it's been nice knowing you all

@marvalice3455 2 года назад

you'll be fine

@JavierSalcedoC 2 года назад

RU-vid: So how many times do you want to change the video thumbnail? Minute earth: Yes.

@rokevh7800 2 года назад

The pedantry in this video is a level I can only aspire to achieve

@unktheunk1428 2 года назад

la-de-da *a little bit of pedantry to clarify the exact technical meaning of a word* WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OF CLIMATE CHANGE la-de-da

@sambroderick5156 Год назад

Love your videos. The bit a currents stopping entirely is fairly extreme. It’s not just salinity but also thermal gradients. I would like to see some references for this as well.

@azrulakashah7243 2 года назад

The puns used in this video is amazing hahahaha

@cryingwater 2 года назад

I just literally learned this last week by browsing Wikipedia. It's called Chemical Dissociation, and it happens inside our stomach where our cells separate sodium and chlorine ions. It get's mixed with a free proton(Hydrogen) to form HCl which is an acid

@toolbaggers 2 года назад

The ocean flow is called thermohaline circulation

@joaquinclavijo7052 2 года назад

Hydrochloric acid (HCl) is a stong acid, meaning it cannot be formed spontaneously from a free proton and a chloride. Similarly to the salt in the ocean HCl is almost always in dissociated form.

@bramvanduijn8086 2 года назад

Reading the comments it seems you should have explained the difference between ions and salts a bit more.

@flyingchic3n 2 года назад

That little iron current animation is pretty cool

@cosmochaos5 2 года назад

MinuteEarth just teaches ne something new with every video with amazing illustrations. (=

@joeyjoe7930 2 года назад

“And keep an eye on its ions!” Hahaha nice!

@Absbor 2 года назад

👍 now i understand ions, thx

@NunSuperior 2 года назад

You've got a NaCl for explaining salinity.

@adriannalundasan7570 2 года назад

Some companies out there think that desalination of the ocean will end the water shortage crisis in some countries. I took that with the grain of salt.

@ahmadfitrahsyamdiputra8407 2 года назад

At first I thought the salinity of seawater would continue to increase over time. And imagine that living creatures millions of years ago could drink fresh seawater. 🤔 Now I just found out that the salinity concentration will continue to stay at that point if the marine conveyor belt remains. 😲

@michaeljanapin9528 2 года назад

"and keep an eye on its ions." Epic.

@daviddavis4885 2 года назад

Hey guys, lovely video, but y’all realize that “take it with a grain of salt” means don’t take it seriously right? So “take our planet’s safety with a grain of salt” means don’t worry about it…

@flyingchong 2 года назад

No need to be salty about it.

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

It means to be skeptical of something and we should definitely be skeptical of our planet’s safety.

@generalbaguette3489 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth you did a big oopsie

@generalbaguette3489 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth yes its means to be skeptical of something but with the context you gave it means be skeptical of global warming as in dont trust its real

@Wrackey 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth yeah, no, you messed up.

@Chaos89P 2 года назад

Serious question, but wouldn't planting trees where they've been cut, especially for the lumber industry, help reduce carbon emissions?

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

Yes, it would.

@Chaos89P 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth Makes me even all the more for "remaking" the forests.

@MGSLurmey 2 года назад

If trees grew fast enough we could farm them like we do crops, and in doing so essentially be converting carbon in the atmosphere into wood for houses, furniture, etc. The big problem with that is trees take decades to grow to maturity, and the land required would be monstrous. That's why almost all of the lumber industry just logs existing forests. At some point we will run out of those and have to find another solution...

@Chaos89P 2 года назад

@@MGSLurmey There are some trees that grow pretty quickly. Problem is they also have a much shorter lifespan than, say, an oak.

@6lbs._onion 2 года назад

Does that mean the characteristics of both Sodium ions and Chlorine ions are what makessomething *taste* salty? And not the compound itself?

@cggc9510 2 года назад

I applaud your click -bait title. I analyze seawater for academic research and I was all about to jump into the comments and correct the video. But after watching, I saw that you technically corrected yourself and opened up the door for other ionic chemistry and oceanographic topics. This is the best type of click-bait. Hats off to you!

@toolbaggers 2 года назад

People don't understand the difference between ionic and covalent bonds. We live in an anti-vax society where people believe that dinosaurs and people lived together on a flat earth that is only 6000 years old with ZERO mention of people getting eaten by t-rexes in the bible. . I'm pretty sure that if humans lived with the dinosaurs, that would be one of the most talked about and documented things of all time.

@itsdifficulttocreateaperfe9850 2 года назад

@@toolbaggers But obviously dinosaurs never existed, scientists lie!

@NorthernReaper 2 года назад

If pole gonna get cold and equators going to be hot again isn’t it gonna start the circulation of water again?

@MasterCleife 2 года назад

Whilst I agree wholeheartedly that we need to do something about the climate. I do have an interesting question. If the salinity is reduced due to the ice caps melting, would the resulting extreme cold temperature at the poles result in the refreezing of seawater there? Maybe it would self regulate.

@jasonreed7522 2 года назад

Yes and no, meaning yes the loss if the currents delivering heat would result in the poles cooling and potentially refreezing/restarting the currents. But No it won't self regulate forever, as evidenced by the earth having periods of 0 permanent ice in the past, and even an iceage happening because of duckweed growing on the surface of the arctic ocean. (Tldr of that, the ocean was mostly cut off from the rest of the sea sorta like the black sea today, so it was super salty from evaporation but rivers flowing into it creates a layer of freshwater a few inches deep on the surface that the duckweed grew in but O2 couldn't penetrate, and give that a few million years and a bunch of carbon was transported to the ocean floor causing an iceage)

@MasterCleife 2 года назад

Interesting, thanks.

@danilooliveira6580 2 года назад

Minute Earth actually answered a very similar question in another comment, here is what they said: This is definitely a possibility! The science of what could happen is really complicated because there are so many interrelated processes, but what you’re describing has happened in Earth’s history, called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where the Earth bounced between periods of warming and cooling. Unfortunately while the warming effects that melt the ice can happen as quickly as decades, the freezing “Ice Age” periods can (and have) lasted hundreds or thousands of years. Several mass extinctions are at least partly attributed to slowing/stopping of currents that left the oceans low in nutrients and oxygen.

@sandpiperbf9767 2 года назад

wait... if slowing of currents causes the poles to refreeze doesn't that mean it's a negative feedback loop so there's likely to be a new equilibrium reached before the poles are iceless?

@danilooliveira6580 2 года назад

@EntrE01 2 года назад

this is the most pedantic video I have ever seen!

@Trioptic3D 2 года назад

Oh yeah! Like that Great Ion Lake in Utah. Near Ion Lake City.

@khadijahhelmi988 2 года назад

I like how there’s a Carvanha in the beginning of the video

@KaiCyreus 2 года назад

nice lil Shellder

@eudaimoniaseeker4742 2 года назад

does it mean, salt just an ion but many? please explain im new to this stuff :)

@sarah53062 2 года назад

"Keep an eye on its ions" Mindblowed

@flyingchong 2 года назад

It’s the Pokémon (hi Shellder) and bad puns in these videos for me.

@RemiGozard 2 года назад

Please think on reducing or refusing animal products, one on the main factors of climate change.

@mattmaloney5988 2 года назад

I listen to the episodes carefully, trying trying trying to guess the pun before you say it.

@cjc2010 2 года назад

We can limit both our carbon AND pun usage.

@AlipashaSadri 2 года назад

I'm here for the puns :)

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

We do it for you 🙌

@troyclayton 2 года назад

Pretty cool, but my chemistry book defines salt as "an ionic compound that results from an acid-base reaction". Salt water is an ionic compound formed from the aqueous acid-base reaction of HCl and NaOH.

@kennyholmes5196 2 года назад

It's also an ionic compound formed by the dissolution of NaCl in H2O, meaning that the salt's still there, just in a different form if you want to look at it by how it's made.

@CaptainObvious0000 2 года назад

there are no ionic bonds in water normally, but nice try.

@justarandomdood 2 года назад

Yeah, that's a more technical definition but that doesn't mean that the video is wrong. The video said that all salts have ionic bonds, it didn't say that all ionic bonds make salts. Their definition is still fine enough for a quick yt vid

@SoulDelSol 2 года назад

I learned something from this comment, thank you

@derekroope1311 2 года назад

Anybody else notice the carvanna in the water in the beginning? Haha I was like ooh look a Pokémon.

@derekroope1311 2 года назад

And shellder.

@Bacony_Cakes 2 года назад

What, did you figure out how to stop the hand-mill?

@magister343 2 года назад

So you're saying we should use the term "Electrolytic Water" instead of "Salt Water?"

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

I propose we call the ocean “the Gatorade bowl.”

@thegoodwitchluzura 2 года назад

@MinuteEarth 😂

@StrawhatAndrews 2 года назад

bruh 2:00 illustrating nutrients as pizza is the most american thing I've seen

@martingeorgiev6307 2 года назад

I come to every video for the knowlage ... AND PUNS!

@McJethroPovTee 2 года назад

There's untapped sources of salt in various gaming communitirs.

@RobotShield 2 года назад

So what was the ocean currents like when there wasn’t polar icecaps previously?

@JB-yl8dc 2 года назад

If the dislike bar was here then you would see my dislike towards your highly clickbaity title, which only works because you bait us in with technicalitiesi. Im done with this.Goodbye

@adrien4269 2 года назад

The dislike bar is currently 417 likes for 37 dislikes. You can find chrome extensions if you want to keep the dislike bar and say fu to RU-vid :)

@bramvanduijn8086 2 года назад

You might enjoy learning a bit more about chemistry and the essential differences between ions and salts. An easy one is that you can't run a current through salts but you can run a current through water that contains ions. You also can't run a current through pure water. To be more precise, salt and pure water have a much higher resistance, if you pump in enough power you will eventually overcome that resistance, though in the case of salt it will melt and in the case of water it will electrolyse into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, which might explode, depending on your experimental setup.

@Rodoadrenalina 2 года назад

omg when will they drop the apocaliptic narrative?

@xavier4313 2 года назад

Eye On ion thats good

@Glockenspheal 2 года назад

Good to know. *Drinks the entire ocean*

@thegoodwitchluzura 2 года назад

I’ll go to your funeral.

@sandis550 2 года назад

That ending lmao

@thevioletskull8158 2 года назад

So salt water doesn't exist unless you you add salt to it? And Sea salt isn't fully sea salt?

@owenlindau1013 2 года назад

I really really like this vid 😁

@williams3711 2 года назад

I learned about this in "The Day After Tomorrow"

@psicologiajoseh 2 года назад

Great video, thanks!

@BigBoiRedFrog Год назад

Thanks for the information and same

@skie6282 2 года назад

This made me think of the complexity of multiple intelligent occupied planets trading goods, like what are the chances the spices and salt occurs on another planet, so it would be great to trade, but we only have enough on our planet for us and not an entire other planet

@PickPig 2 года назад

yeah! and this isnt a video, its just a collection of frames played at regular intervals

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

I guess you could say salt dissolving in water is like exporting a video as a series of jpegs.

@pitsahat2 2 года назад

So if the pols and the equator become more extreme due to the lack of circulation wouldn't this extreme of temperatures create/force new ciculation?

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

It could and has happened in Earth’s history. Unfortunately the periods of cold and ice tend to last for hundreds or thousands of years whereas the warming that causes it can happen in decades.

@cheezemonkeyeater 2 года назад

Welcome to Minute-And-A-Bit Earth.

@spicydonut5377 2 года назад

You guys teach me more than my teachers do

@eudaimoniaseeker4742 2 года назад

When I was a child, I thought sea water cause by god crying because what human do ( you know because tears is salty to me) , but when I grew older I realise that it just science

@bighotchip4231 2 года назад

So how did ocean circulation work during times when polar ice caps were absent on Earth. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember reading that Earth did not have polar ice caps for like 300 million years and the oceans were stagnant lifeless puddles.

@6alecapristrudel 2 года назад

Fine then, take an amino acid and put it in water. Each molecule is it's own salt even when dissolved, since it has both a positive and negative charge at neutral pH.

@harshagowd32 2 года назад

You are right Minute Earth is saltier than ocean😉

@notesmaker204 2 года назад

Well, technically the ocean will go back to it's original concentration but there will be no humans to benefit off of it.

@MetaSynForYourSoul 2 года назад

Isn't this the exact scenario of The Day After Tomorrow?! Who knew a Roland Emmerich movie would be somewhat scientific.

@davehumphries 2 года назад

Do all salts taste salty? Can one salt taste more salty than another salt? What is the saltiest salt.

@MinuteEarth 2 года назад

Not at all, salts cover the entire range of flavor depending on their combination of ions. Sweet salt, sour salt, bitter salt, etc.

@kennyholmes5196 2 года назад

@@MinuteEarth IIRC, salts don't even have to be monatomic ions, just a positive ion and a negative ion combined together, regardless of size.

@CaptainObvious0000 2 года назад

salts are ionic compounds, i.e. defined as such only by charge distribution and interparticle forces. this categorization is extremely broad and can cover almost anything. you can ionize a lot of compounds that are not ionic compounds by themselves. the larger the molecules, the less of a role will a single introduced charge play for the interaction with your receptors. pretty sure that for almost anything humans can taste, you could make or find a salt that has that exact taste.