With all of this snow from Winter Storm Pax I've been wondering how road salt works. Basically salt makes the freezing temperature of water lower. Usually water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, but adding a ten percent salt mixture will make it so water freezes at 20 degrees. This will literally make it so that the ice has to melt and will refreeze when the temperature is 20 degrees. Pretty cool.
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