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Need info on what melts ice faster sand rock salt or kitty litter?
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∙ 13y ago
Rock salt will melt ice fastest. Sand and cat litter don't really melt the ice. They are used generally to provide particles for increasing traction on icy surfaces. Sand might prevent new ice from forming on roads.
When salt dissolves into liquid water, it depresses the melting point temperature - - when helps the ice melt easier. Sand and cat litter don't dissolve into water, so they cannot have this effect. The only thing that sand and cat litter can do is absorb radiant energy from the surroundings better than ice since they are somewhat darker and less reflective - so they provide some minor assistance to melting the snow, but nowhere near the effect of salt.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 7y agoThis sounds like an excellent science experiment! Freeze three different sets of ice cubes and put each into a pan. Cover one with sand and one with cat litter and one with rock salt and check them every 10 minutes until one is all the way melted. Which one will win?
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∙ 13y agoSalt will actually melt the ice (lowers freezing point turning it into water), cat litter and sand only provide a layer of traction on top the ice.
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∙ 12y agoSalt would, because the salt contains chlorine ions, which are greedy and make the ice melt and separate quicker.
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∙ 15y agosalt is the only one of the three that will actually melts ice, sand & litter don't melt ice they only lay on top
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∙ 13y agoRock Salt try it the salt will go straight down
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∙ 13y agoSALT
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∙ 13y agoSalt.
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