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Popular science: The saltiest sea in the world, the sea with the highest salt content

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We all know that

The taste of the sea water is salty

But different seas

The degree of saltiness of the sea water is also different

And the saltiestest in the world

That is, the sea with the highest salinity is the Red Sea

Popular science: The saltiest sea in the world, the sea with the highest salt content

The first thing that comes to mind for many people is the Dead Sea

But the Dead Sea is not really a sea

It's a huge lake

And his salinity is only 33 percent

There is still a bit of a gap with 43 percent of the Red Sea

The Red Sea is in ancient Greek

The ocean is called Red

In addition, large areas of red algae often appear in the Red Sea

Make the Red Sea appear red

Hence the name Red Sea

Popular science: The saltiest sea in the world, the sea with the highest salt content

The Red Sea sits between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

Desert on both sides

Rivers are scarce

There is no fresh water injection

Add to that the perennial sweltering heat

The sea temperature is high

As a result, the annual evaporation is much greater than the amount of precipitation

This causes more and more salt in the seawater to accumulate

And the Red Sea is slender and narrow

Popular science: The saltiest sea in the world, the sea with the highest salt content

One end was intercepted by the Suez Canal

At the other end is the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

This makes it difficult to interchange the inner seawater with the low salinity of the seawater outside

This eventually led to the Red Sea becoming the saltiest sea

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