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Describe the oceans and explain how the water cycle affects the salinity of the ocean

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*As a liquid, water desolvesrocks and sediments and reacts with emissions from volcanoes and hydrothermal vents. this creates a complex solution of mineral salts in our ocean basins. conversely, in other states such as vapor and ice, water and salt are incompatible: water vapor and ice are essentially salt free.
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