What is so special about the Sargasso Sea? Detailed answer

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What is so special about the Sargasso Sea?

The Sargasso Sea got its name from the huge accumulations of Sargasso algae floating on its surface or close to it, the abundance of which is associated with the presence of a zone of convergence of surface currents in this sea. There are almost no winds there, the sun burns incessantly, the water temperature in winter is 18-23 degrees, and in summer 26-28 degrees. The algae in this nutrient medium multiply wildly, becoming huge and almost immortal.

Experts believe that some of the current algae of the Sargasso Sea could be seen by Christopher Columbus and his companions. In adventure literature, there are descriptions of the tragic end of ships that ventured into the Sargasso Sea and failed to get out of it.

Although the total weight of the Sargasso Sea algae is estimated at 10 million tons, all this mass is distributed over a space of 6-7 million square kilometers. So in reality, the risk of getting hopelessly stuck in the algae of the Sargasso Sea is negligible.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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The big bang created only two chemical elements, hydrogen and helium (and small amounts of deuterium and lithium). All other elements that fill the periodic table appeared only after the emergence of stars. In their depths, during thermonuclear fusion reactions, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and heavier elements were gradually formed.

The evolution of large stars ends with their explosions, after which the elements accumulated in such stars disperse into space, pollute the clouds of interstellar gas, and in due course serve as the raw material for the emergence of new stars.

In the world in which we live, there is a constant processing of primordial matter - the Universe is enriched with heavy elements, and the lightest ones are becoming less and less. Our Earth and all living beings on it, including people, consist of chemical elements formed in the stellar depths.

Therefore, we are all, in a certain sense, children of the stars.

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