you’ll understand why water can freeze only at the surface!”
As the captain was finishing his sentence, I said to myself: “The pole! Is this brazen individual claiming he’ll take us even to that location?”
Meanwhile the captain fell silent and stared at the element he had studied so thoroughly and unceasingly. Then, going on:
“Salts,” he said, “fill the sea in considerable quantities, professor, and if you removed all its dissolved saline content,
you’ll understand why water can freeze only at the surface!”
As the captain was finishing his sentence, I said to myself: “The pole! Is this brazen individual claiming he’ll take us even to that location?”
Meanwhile the captain fell silent and stared at the element he had studied so thoroughly and unceasingly. Then, going on:
“Salts,” he said, “fill the sea in considerable quantities, professor, and if you removed all its dissolved saline content,
