Giant Iceberg the size of Delaware breaks off Antarctica

Icetanic wrote:

Der Kaisers wrote:

Fresh water or salt water, whatever. What are the implications of this iceberg striking out on it's own in the open seas?

It will hit another iceberg and sink.

90% of it is already sunk

Kyzer Sozenator wrote:

Citizen Runner wrote:

While this iceberg is glacial ice, that is, it's mostly very compacted snow, old sea ice formed from freezing sea water is also relatively fresh. The salt is effectively distilled out in the freezing process.

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/seaice/index.html

Lol and I'll bet you buy into "global warming" too.

Here's an experiment for you to try:

1) Dissolve 1 tbsp salt in 8 oz water

2) Place it in your freezer

3) Once frozen, pull it out and lick it

4) Once you realize it's salty, shove it up your a$$

I'm guessing you don't have a really firm understanding of why cities salt roads in the winter.

Anything that small should not have 2 senators.

grenio wrote:

Kyzer Sozenator wrote:

Lol and I'll bet you buy into "global warming" too.

Here's an experiment for you to try:

1) Dissolve 1 tbsp salt in 8 oz water

2) Place it in your freezer

3) Once frozen, pull it out and lick it

4) Once you realize it's salty, shove it up your shriveled a$$

I'm guessing you don't have a really firm understanding of why cities salt roads in the winter.

Better than you, apparently. You seem to think freezing point depression = freezing point elimination. Lol.

So long as your freezer is at the typical 0°F the experiment above will work perfectly. Please post your results so we can all laugh at you.

grenio wrote:

Kyzer Sozenator wrote:

Lol and I'll bet you buy into "global warming" too.

Here's an experiment for you to try:

1) Dissolve 1 tbsp salt in 8 oz water

2) Place it in your freezer

3) Once frozen, pull it out and lick it

4) Once you realize it's salty, shove it up your a$$

I'm guessing you don't have a really firm understanding of why cities salt roads in the winter.

Because the salt melts the ice.

Swongner wrote:

grenio wrote:

I'm guessing you don't have a really firm understanding of why cities salt roads in the winter.

Because the salt melts the ice.

Jesus. No. Not at all.

Swongner wrote:

grenio wrote:

I'm guessing you don't have a really firm understanding of why cities salt roads in the winter.

Because the salt melts the ice.

(sigh) Let me spell this out for all you dummies.

Colligative properties of water for the experiment above will result in ~2.5 molality NaCl (about 4x's the salinity of seawater), giving a 9°F deperession of water's freezing point. NaCl does not precipitate out of water until concentrations about 10X's that of seawater.

Please do us all a favor and shut up about things you all don't understand.

Kyzer Sozenator wrote:

Swongner wrote:

Because the salt melts the ice.

(sigh) Let me spell this out for all you dummies.

Colligative properties of water for the experiment above will result in ~2.5 molality NaCl (about 4x's the salinity of seawater), giving a 9°F deperession of water's freezing point. NaCl does not precipitate out of water until concentrations about 10X's that of seawater.

Please do us all a favor and shut up about things you all don't understand.

Said your ex whenever you brought up the topic of female orgasm...

Some salty brine can be trapped in the pure water ice that freezes on the ocean surface. Over time, the brine drains downward, back into the ocean. Older sea ice is melted and used by the people who live on it and work on it for drinking water. There's very little salt in it.

Beevie wrote:

Sharp Teeth wrote:

Even though Penguins aren't that big, they are pack animals and hunt in groups. They can easily kill polar bears, though the bears can run and swim faster. So penguins mostly hunt walruses and seals. A hungry pack can skeletalize one in about 90 seconds.

OMFG. How many penguins are on this thing and how long before it gets close enough for them to swarm Argentina?

DOLT!!! There are already penguins living in Argentina.

You can even adopt one.

grenio wrote:

Anything that small should not have 2 senators.

These states have ONE representative in Congress, yet they get TWO senators.

Alaska,

Delaware,

North Dakota,

South Dakota,

Vermont,

Wyoming

Off with their heads!

Did we have an iceburg v. iceberg debate yet

Iceberg =Jewish ice

Iceburg= ice as big as a german town

Have you heard of Brine Rejection...

no, look it up, its freshwater...

Kyzer Sozenator wrote:

Swongner wrote:

Because the salt melts the ice.

(sigh) Let me spell this out for all you dummies.

Colligative properties of water for the experiment above will result in ~2.5 molality NaCl (about 4x's the salinity of seawater), giving a 9°F deperession of water's freezing point. NaCl does not precipitate out of water until concentrations about 10X's that of seawater.

Please do us all a favor and shut up about things you all don't understand.

You obviously don't live up in the NE. I put salt on my steps during the winter after a snow or ice storm. The ice melts.

grenio wrote:

I'm guessing you don't have a really firm understanding of why cities salt roads in the winter.

Clearly a scam with the salt industry.

"precipitating" is when a solute forms a solid and falls out of a solution. Technically when ice freezes, it's is a crystal structure and is relatively pure with very few sodium and chloride ions incorporated. They continue to concentrate in the fraction of water that isn't frozen and form a slurry on the outer edges of the ice and yes, could precipitate as well.

The favorable interaction between the salt ions and the water is the reason for the freezing point depression. Salt water freezes at a lower temperature than pure water because it is more energetically favorable for the water molecules to continue to interact with the ions than for them to form a solid. so essentially it takes less energy to melt ice with salt. If you make it cold enough, even salt will lose its effectivity.

Next you'll be telling us penguins are in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa already. Sad! #FakeNews.

beachfront orlando wrote:

Coach wrote:

Scientists stated that this is not a result of global warming

Thats because they're worried about getting funded with the new administration.

As if global warming were real. LOL

If you read enough online forums these days you gradually come to the realization that nearly every living human being is a dumbazz.

Dang it, if you persist on adducing "facts" and "logic" and "peer-reviewed research" in these discussions, you're going to change the whole LRC vibe.

Look, your "science" doesn't outweigh the other guy's assertion, okay? He's louder, so he's right, and you can shove your "reality"--because he wants *his* view to be true, more than you want yours to be.