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Give Reasons: Ocean water is salty.

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The water of the oceans is salty as it contains large amount of dissolved salts. Sodium, chloride, sulphate, magnesium, calcium, potassium, bicarbonate and bromide and several common mineral salts are present in ocean water through rivers which pass over rocks and soil, these salts reach the ocean, picking up salt along the way. 

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