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In polar areas, water on the ocean's surface can freeze. As the water turns into ice, salts are squeezed out of the ice and enter the liquid water below the ice layer. What is the result of this?
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In polar areas, water on the ocean's surface can freeze. As the water turns into ice, salts are squeezed out of the ice and enter the liquid water below the ice layer. What is the result of this?

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The ice becomes freshwater.

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As many would know, most of freshwater on earth (about 68.7%) is kept in glaciers and icecaps. This tells us that the ice frozen in icecaps are freshwater.

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