Sunday, May 19, 2024

How To Clean The Water

Experiment of clearing the water using capilarity property of the water using a piece of cloth.

2 glass of water are places at diferent Heights.
The glass wit diety water is situated at an higher place and the two glass are connected with a piece if cloth.

After a while in the glass below we can observe the water that was moved from the first glassthrough the piece of cloth by capilarity to be clean.

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Ocna Sibiului Salted Water



The lakes have a total area of 7844  sqm with an average salinity of 300 g/l .

They are the first în Europe and globally having the phenomenon of heliotherm, meaning keeping the solar heat in waters with  high salt concentration from the depths. The temperatures reach 22-24 degrees Celsois at the surface and 40-45 degrees Celsius at over 2 m deep.
The hotel has a swimming pool that bring water from the Crisan Lake and the water is warm . The water in the inside swimming pool is pumped from 10 m deep where the salt concentration approaches 300g/l. It create an excellent environment for aerosol meetings, very beneficial in the treatment of respiratory diseases.

Lake Crișan was formed by the collapse of a salt mine ceiling. Has an area of 1739 square meters, a volume of 29,000 cubic meters and a depth of 44 m.
The mud formed at 1-1.5 m deep at the edge of the lake has a salinity of 72g/l whereas at 2.5 m deep the mud salinity is 126g/l at 13 m deep the mud salinity is 339 g/l.

The Complex "Ocna Sibiului Ștrand " has 3 lakes Horea Closca and Crișan.is situated at 17 km of Sibiu, and 200 m of the entrance of Ocna Sibiului.


The official opening of cold baths took place on September 2, 1846.

The phenomenon of heliotermiea was discovered in 1900.