Have you ever been in a situation a witness a situation when someone poured salt on ice?
That reaction looks weird because salt is not cold or hot. So how can it make ice melt fast?
The chemical reaction that only makes that possible is as a result salt mixing with thin layer of water on the surface of ice, it reduces the temperature at which the water can freeze. And because of that reaction, it becomes difficult for the water to stay freezed, so more ice will continue to melt rapidly.
The fascinating aspect of all of this is that the salt poured does not produce heat. What the does is to change the freezing point of the water it is poured on.
These are little science in our daily life we do not pay attention to. In cold countries, when enough salt is poured on snowing or icy roads, it aids the rate at which the ice is being melted for vehicles to move safely but that cannot be encouraged because salts can also be corrosive to metals and some other things it comes in contact with.
But everything that has advantages also have disadvantages and that is why salt can only be effective when the temperature hits a certain range. It the temperature becomes overly cold, the ordinary salt we use might not have much effect.
So, that salt in the salt jar in your kitchen cabinet can change the reaction of water at the molecular level.
Before now, have you tried making use of salt to melt ice and how was the reaction?
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