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Why is it that if you were stranded out on the ocean you could die out of dehydration?

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DONT USE: Evaporation, Salt dries you up, Salt sucks the water up

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Answer:

Drinking seawater can be deadly to humans.

Step-by-step explanation:

Seawater contains salt. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier

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