• SolidGrue
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    1 year ago

    To answer very literally, no. The water itself isn’t thicker, it’s the same. It is denser because the pressure is significantly higher, because the water is colder, and to a small degree because salt settles down

    The answer is, “functionally, no.” Temperature and salinity alone account for the density changes. Water by its definition is hydraulic, and therefore is functionally incompressible, absent other factors.

    edit: significant spellings