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Sodium Chloride - salt, whether sea or table - lowers the temperature threshold between water's liquid and solid state , hence it "melts" ice. The holes in the ice cube are tiny "melt spots" caused by the salt crystal.

This is why people put salt on roads and sidewalks also.

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