Category: Tag: saltwater
Figure 1. An IR image of a freshwatercup and a saltwater cup after an icecube was added to each.Will an ice cube melt faster in freshwater or saltwater? Why do we salt the road in water? How does an iceberg melt and how might it affect the ocean curren…
Figure 1. The salinity gradient and temperature gradient observed in anopen cup of saturated saltwater.This is the fifth follow-up of the blog article: “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?” This investigation focused on the…
This is the third followup of the blog article: “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?”I woke up last night with a perfect explanation for the mysterious temperature gradient observed in a saturated salt solution. It is the recrystallization of salt …
This is the second followup of an earlier blog article “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?”I did an experiment to investigate the relationship of the salt concentration with the mysterious temperature gradient in a cup of salt water. The experimen…
This is the first followup of the blog article last week “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?”.Several people including Bob Tinker, John Loosmann, and Einar Berg suggested that it was the evaporation of water that drives the observed persisting tem…
I was bothered by an experiment I did recently about the temperature distribution in a cup of salt solution. I added a few spoons of table salt and baking soda in two cups of water to create two saturated solutions. Then I left them sit there for a few…