why dose ice melt when you add salt?

Answer 1

its called freezing point depression.

when you add any electrolytes (like salt) to water, you lower the freezing point of water, the more you add, the lower the freezing point

Answer 2

Anytime you make a solution between a solvent (water) and a solute (salt), the freezing point of the solvent is lowered (in most cases). Adding the salt lowers the freezing of water below the air temperature allowing the snow or ice to melt.

Answer 3

Adding salt decreases the melting point of water. The salt ions bind up the water molecules and make it more difficult for them to form a crystalline ice structure.

Answer 4

The ice and sand decrease the freezing temperature for water/ice. With a decrease freezing temperature, the ice will soften speedier through fact it has to get much greater chilly to maintain itfrozen. that is greater good to maintain the icefrozen at a decrease temp…so that is going to soften speedier

Answer 5

salt lowers the frezing point of water from 0c to around -4c. It also adds great flavouring to hot chips or fries.

Answer 6

Because there is more space between the salt molecules so the water molecules fill it up.

Answer 7

Here is all the Information You need: http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/solutions/faq/why-salt-melts-ice.shtml

Answer 8

becuase it is a chemical reaction, NaCl or salt combined with H2O in its solid sate or water as ice

Answer 9

Because ice is weird.

Answer 10

its a freezing point depression and a chemical reaction