(ËvÉr bÉl) adj. 1. of or consisting of words: verbal ability. 2. spoken rather than written; oral: verbal communication. 3. concerned with words only, rather than with the ideas, facts, or realities expressed: a purely verbal distinction. 4. corresponding word for word; verbatim: a verbal translation.
Because their hypothesis requires that Earth arose from water-containing materials already present in the inner solar system, it's called the wet-accretion hypothesis. Most of Earth's water has an indigenous origin, says Drake.
Origin of ocean water. One scientific theory about the origin of ocean water states that as Earth formed from a. cloud of gas and dust more than 4.5 billion years ago, a huge amount of lighter. elements (including hydrogen and oxygen) became trapped inside the molten interior of.