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Evaporation and Crystallisation

See how salt evaporation ponds use surface area and saturation to harvest solid salt from seawater.

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Harvesting salt from the sea

Salt evaporation ponds use nothing but sun, air and a large shallow area to turn seawater into solid salt. Two ideas explain how this works.