Re: Voyager: "Thirty Days"
- From: nebusj@xxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus)
- Date: 12 Oct 2005 11:46:01 -0400
Weyoun the Dancing Borg <weyounthedancingborg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>Salt in the sea is there because it's absorbed from rocks, right? (on
>Earth).
>But this... "planet" (?) was made up of "Oxygen and hydrogen" according
>to seven of nine, which banded together "in a similar way to gas giants"
>(in it's creation).
>So where's the rock that caused the salt to get into the sea-planet?
Well, since the question about the origin of the water's been
answered ... I suppose we might wonder about whether a Water Planet
might get reasonably salty oceans.
Where the elements come from is I suppose the same as all the
other elements, ejected starstuff from earlier explosions. Chlorine
I can see being soaked up by the forming ball of water, although I'd
expect it to tend to concentrate near the core since it's heavier than
water. Sodium might sprinkle down, but it's going to have an explosive
interaction with the surface. How to get the ionic compound NaOH to
mix with interior chlorine (or hydrochloric acid) I'm not sure at all.
Does salt form in space in appreciable quantities? Or will
sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid combine to salt water? From
the rarity with with salt water generates hydrochloric acid I imagine
that it's energetically favorable for NaOH + HCl to yield NaCl + H_2O,
but I don't have any substantial chemistry training.
--
Joseph Nebus
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