SciShow: Why Does the Ocean Smell Like That?

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. What gives the ocean its distinct, sometimes pungent smell? It turns out the answer is more than just dead fish or salt: it’s the scent of tons of phytoplankton being munched on! Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC134419/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00637/full https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18434-4 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1617201/ https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/209/11/2165.full.pdf https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/10285497/stefels.PDF https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/dms--the-climate-gas-youve-never-heard-of/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/how-one-little-molecule-influences-earthe28099s-climate/ https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S016578360600395X https://www.nature.com/news/rising-ocean-acidity-will-exacerbate-global-warming-1.13602 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2001GB001829 https://www.nature.com/articles/326655a0 Image sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mixed_phytoplankton_community_2.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roseobacter_strain_HIMB11.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/example-of-sulphur-gm1293391595-387814868 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13021 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-flying-laysan-albatross-phoebastria-immutabilis-is-a-large-seabird-that-ranges-gm1255950130-367583890 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/seal-gm177122214-16688740 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/whale-shark-coming-to-you-underwater-close-up-portrait-gm607632870-104167021 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mixed_phytoplankton_community.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/green-sea-water-algae-colors-the-waves-gm1284907939-381903810


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