if I place both waters into a bucket from where the two oceans meet but don’t mix, why do they mix just fine in the bucket?

Question

if I place both waters into a bucket from where the two oceans meet but don’t mix, why do they mix just fine in the bucket?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

The idea of “two oceans meet but don’t mix” is more or less a myth. Most of the pictures of this you see on the Internet are at rivermouths or headlands, where a sharp contrast between water types is visible … but it mixes away pretty quickly.

Tom Scott did a video on this recently.