I was watching a documentary about a team that was planning to go down to the lowest point on the ocean floor somewhere in the arctic.
While the gentleman in the sub was going down, the narrator stated “at this depth, the water outside the submarine is below freezing”.
Soo… why is it not frozen? Does it have to do with the salt content in the water?
ELI5, thanks!
In: Earth Science
Solutes such as salt cause the freezing point to be more extreme. There is actually an equation based on concentration and how many ions or pieces the solute splits into to find by how much the temperature changes for a given liquid.
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