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Water DOES freeze when potassium nitrate is in it, it just doesn't do so as easily.

Any solute will lower the freezing point of a solvent by a characteristic amount; for water it's 1.853 K kg/mol (that's Kelvins, kilograms of water, and moles of solute species; potassium nitrate is ionic and very soluble, so one mole of potassium nitrate will lower the freezing point of a kilogram of water by 3.7 Kelvins).


This and similar effects are called "colligative properties", and the simplistic explanation is that the solute disrupts the ice crystal lattice ... essentially, it "gets in the way" of the water freezing.

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