Melting Ice with Salt

17 January 2010

We were asked why councils don't use seawater to melt ice on the roads, so why not find out the answer with an experiment?

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Thank you for your prompt reply. But I did not get the reply for my query regarding gain in enthalpy by freezing water which rises when temperature goes down. How can there be gain in enthalpy by freezing water instead of loss.My presumption is that the gain enthalpy referred here is by environment. Please confirm.

The sentence in the above explanation "so if you put salt on ice it will now be above its melting point" is confusing .Can you elaborate on it

yeah but what are the sources of error becasue whe ni looked it up i found this and after reading everythign i couldnt find the sources of error and any improvements whats so ever

Maybe you could suggest some improvements?

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