There’s billions of life forms on there. Say a shrimp dies and isn’t eaten up or anything by scavengers, could it pickle over time? The way we pickle meats in a salt brine? The ocean is a salt brine in itself.

  • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    out of curiosity what is the average salinity? We often use 0.85% saline to suspend organisms and red cells to keep osmotic pressure stable, I’m just curious if its around that level.