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Salt lowers the freezing temperature of water, which means that it has to be colder for the water to freeze.
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What can be added to a bucket of water to keep it from freezing?
Salt
Will bottled salt water placed into a bucket of water keep it from freezing?
It will certainly not keep the water in the bucket from freezing and, if the temperature goes low enough, the bottled salt water will also freeze.
When do you apply rock salt to roadways?
During the cold days of winter, to decrease the the freezing point of water and avoid ice and snow on the roads.
Why in icy road you put salt?
Adding salt to water lowers the freezing point. Thus, the roadways stay ice free.
How does salt keep wet roads from freezing in the cold weather?
The freezing point of water is lowered because by dissolution salt release heat.
What does salt have to do with the freezing point of water?
Adding salt to water the freezing point decrease.
How does salt affect the melting and freezing point of water?
Salt decreases the freezing point of water and increases the boiling point of water.
The process of what squeezes the salt out of salt water?
Freezing
What is the diff between salt and fresh water temperature?
Since the salt makes water boil, get colder, and melt faster, salt water would be warmer in the summer and colder in the winter, but the salt would help, but not 100%, keep the water from freezing.
Why does salt effect the freezing point of water?
Salt mixes with the water raising it's freezing temperature above normal.
What is the freezing point of salt?
Salt, being a crystalized mineral with no water content has no freezing point.
Why does the freezing point affect the freezing of salt water?
It does not, but salt affects the freezing point. All solids are frozen. Each has a different freezing point. Ice is just the freezing point of water. But your computer keys are frozen too. Different substances freeze differently. But for your purposes, compare water to salt water. The salt in the water causes there to be more things in the water that disrupt the tight hydrogen bonds.Since freezing is tighter H-bonds, salt lowers the freezing temperature because it is harder to freeze it now since there is salt in it.
