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How Do Mussels Get Their Shells?

2019/5/24
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The ocean's saltiness is due to rainwater, which is slightly acidic, weathering rocks and washing minerals, including salt, into the ocean. This salt concentration makes the water denser, allowing for easier floating.

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We're heading to the coast of Maine to learn a little bit about why the sea is salty and how mussels get their shells with Zach Whitener, a research associate at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine.

We also get an answer to a question to how you get a ship in a bottle from Colorado-based ship-in-bottle builder Daniel Siemens in this encore episode from 2016.

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