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How much salt is in the arctic ocean?

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    Hard to answer because you don't care what sort of answer you want. Here's a couple of links which may help you decide what you want. If you want the gross weight of salt, multiply the volume by the average percentage of salt ( which will be about 3.4%, it's much less salty near the surface than down deep) here's a calculation using the surface area, the average depth and 3.4% salinity. 14,056,000 km² area (1.038 km) depth (1000³ m³/km³)(1000 kg/m³ H2O)(0.034 kg salt/kg H2O) salinity = 496 x 10^15 kg of salt If you want the salinity of the water, then just read the graph on the Wiki article for the depth you are interested in and report.

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Hard to answer because you don't care what sort of answer you want. Here's a couple of links which may help you decide what you want. If you want the gross weight of salt, multiply the volume by the average percentage of salt ( which will be about 3.4%, it's much less salty near the surface than down deep) here's a calculation using the surface area, the average depth and 3.4% salinity. 14,056,000 km² area (1.038 km) depth (1000³ m³/km³)(1000 kg/m³ H2O)(0.034 kg salt/kg H2O) salinity = 496 x 10^15 kg of salt If you want the salinity of the water, then just read the graph on the Wiki article for the depth you are interested in and report.

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