@Shuttle128 Facts and trivia on different subjects concerning water
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About water chemistry and water movement:
1. Most of the earth’s surface consists of water; there is much more water than there is land.
2. Water can not only be found on the surface, but also in the ground and in the air.
3. There is the same amount of water on earth as there was when the earth was formed. The water that came from your faucet could contain molecules that Neanderthals drankā¦
4. The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years.
5. There are two kinds of water; salt water and freshwater. Salt water contains great amounts of salt, whereas freshwater has a dissolved salt concentration of less than 1%. Only freshwater can be applied as drinking water.
6. Water consists of three atoms, 2 Hydrogen atoms and an Oxygen atom, that are bond together due to electrical charges.
Does the amount of water on planet earth increase or decrease with time?
Neither. We have the same amount of water on our planet now as we had a hundred years ago, water goes through a process called “The Water Cycle” while in some places water may be in small or large quantities at times, there is still the same amount of water, it has just not been distributed evenly, or it is going through one of the processes in The Water Cycle called evaporation, which means water vapor on the ground, is evaporating into cloud matter, the water in the clouds will be released during another process of The Water Cycle called precipitaion, more commomly known as rain.
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