How much does the Atlantic Ocean weigh?

Answer 1

the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 41.1 million sq miles (106 million sq km) in surface area without it's surrounding seas. It carriers a volume of approx. 77.64 million square miles. At about 62.427 lb per cubic foot at surface pressure. The weight of saline changes per cu foot based on absolute pressure ie the deeper you go, the more dense one cu foot of water will be so the more it will weigh, i do not have the information to calculate the density of the entire ocean. So at surface density one cu mile of sea water weighs about 4594563274.752 us tons. so i calculate that for the sake of casual conversation the approximate weight of the Atlantic ocean is 356,721,892,651,745,280 tons.

Answer 2

1. x = total tons on water (total volume) covering Planet Earth
2. 315 million (total volume) cubic miles of water cover the Earth (estimated)
3. 4,168,181,825 cubic meters of water are in a cubic mile
4. 1 cubic meter of water weighs 2,206.07 lbs. or 1.103035 tons (1 ton = 2000 lbs.)
5. Therefore, 1.103035 tons/cubic meter * 4,168,181,825 cubic meters/cubic mile * 315 million total cubic miles of water on Earth = x
6. x = 1,448,259,888,391,745,625 tons of water covering Planet Earth, or
7. (1 trillion = 12 zeros; 1 quadrillion = 15 zeros; 1 quintillion = 18 zeros) *Exb. 1
8. Therefore, x = 1.4482598884 quintillion tons of water on Planet Earth, or
9. About 1.5 quintillion tons of total water weight cover Planet Earth

   Exhibit 1: Number Measurements:

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   U.S. & scientific community

   3

   thousand

   6

   million

   9

   billion

   12

   trillion

   15

   quadrillion

   18

   quintillion

   21

   sextillion

   24

   septillion

   27

   octillion

   30

   nonillion

   33

   decillion

   36

   undecillion

   39

   duodecillion

   42

   tredecillion

   45

   quattuordecillion

   48

   quindecillion

   51

   sexdecillion

   54

   septendecillion

   57

   octodecillion

   60

   novemdecillion

   63

   vigintillion

Answer 3

after the science report published in 1997 it weighs approximately 8,989,000,000 tons

Answer 4

According to Wikipedia, all water on Earth weighs 1.4 X 1021 kilograms. But 2% of that is freshwater, so it's really 1.37 X 1021 kg.

Answer 5

The ocean actually weighs 1.2 quintillion tonnes!? This would basically crush the whole human population if we were under this death trap

Answer 6

Water makes up about 2% the mass of the earth

Answer 7

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