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Salt water. The salt makes it melt faster, than pure fresh water.
That is rubbish. Salt crystals may be spread onto ice to melt it (causing a drop in temperature too). A mixture of crushed ice and salt is commonly used as a "freezing mixture" in the laboratory. However, a lump of ice (of a given mass and temperature) will not melt at any appreciably different rate in a bath of salty water than in a bath of fresh water at the same temperature. This is because the thermal conductivity of salty water is only very slightly greater than that of fresh water, but the thermal capacity of salty water is less than that of fresh water, so any effects due to these differences tend to cancel each other out. The main factor that would influence the rate of melting would be the temperature of the water bath. Some experiments have shown that if the bath water is salty enough, the bath water is more dense than any cold, recently-melted water from the ice cube and thus there will be no convection currents which might carry heat away quicker than by conduction alone, from which the obvious conclusion is that the ice should melt quicker in fresh water.
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∙ 13y agosalt water. a solution of the solvent (water) and the solute (salt) has a lower freezing point than the pure solvent
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Frozen salt water melt faster then frozen fresh water?
Salt lowers the melting or freezing point of water. The effect is termed 'freezing point depression'. Therefore frozen salt water melts faster and remain melted for long.
What frezes faster salt or fresh water?
Fresh water.
Which freeze faster fresh water or salt water?
Fresh water.
Will a quarter decompose faster in salt water or fresh water?
salt water, as the salt water eats away at the coin faster.
Does tap water melt faster than salt water?
Yes
Does salt water or fresh water melt faster?
Most probably , it would be fresh water. This is because since there is no salt which would keep the cold , the fresh water would melt faster.
If ice were to put ice into both salt water and fresh water then which water could come cold faster?
Yes it will melt faster because salt lowe the freezing
Why does a ice cube melt faster in fresh water than salt water?
It's because THE TEMPERATURE of the water. The higher temperature the faster melts.
How is the environment affected by the technology of changing salt water into fresh water?
the ice caps melt faster in fresh water whereas they might not melt at all in salt water. this is one of the reasons why the sea level is rising because the fresh water melts vast chunks of ice.
Why does salt water melt faster than fresh water?
The salt is sea water accelerates the thawing process because it lowers the freeze point of the water.
Will flour water or salt water melt an ice cube faster?
Salt water will melt an ice cube faster.
Will an ice cube melt the fastest in fresh water or salt water?
it will depend on which of these waters is hotter. the hotter the water the faster the ice will melt. doesn't matter if the water is fresh or salty. its the temperature of the water that will determine how fast the ice melts.
Frozen salt water melt faster then frozen fresh water?
Salt lowers the melting or freezing point of water. The effect is termed 'freezing point depression'. Therefore frozen salt water melts faster and remain melted for long.
What frezes faster salt or fresh water?
Fresh water.
What cools faster salt water or fresh water?
fresh water
Which freeze faster fresh water or salt water?
Fresh water.
What freezes faster fresh water light salt water or heavy salt water?
I think it is fresh water freezes faster because the salt melts ice.
