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I've read that when in the process of making home made ice cream we use salt to lower the temperature of the ice. I understand it lowers the temperature of the ice sunstantially.
My Question:
Will salt water or brine freeze in a home freezer?

Will it reach a lower temperature?....and would that ice melt more slowly at room temperature than ice made of pure water?

2007-07-29 22:32:13 · 2 answers · asked by ericbryce2 7 in Science & Mathematics Physics

Thanks Jason. I knew that it might be more or a chemisty question but I wasn't sure. I'm intrigued as to why a brine solution which freezes to a lower temperation would melt faster.

2007-07-29 23:43:29 · update #1

2 answers

This is really a chemistry question.

Salty water has a lower triple point then pure water. When it dissovles in water it changes the chemistry of the solution, so that the solid/liquid state changes are considerably different.
Freeze is at a lower temperature, while Boiling point is at a higher temperature. reflecting the chemistry of the chemicals within the Salt, depending on what kind of salt it is.
Salt is a good conductor as well.

You should beable to freeze salt water in a home freezer, at the maximum cold temperature.
That ice would actually melt Faster then pure water.

RE: Well you said "at room temperature" not gradually from the freezing point of the brine

2007-07-29 23:13:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jason G 2 · 0 0

you probably did not state what place you're taking ... truly there's no ice on Mars. on the exterior of Mars it is. on the poles there is carbon dioxide ice. yet CO2 sublimates to gasoline at ?seventy 8.5 °C. provided that the final floor temperature on Mars is ?60 °C, then CO2 can sublimate. Water maintains to be in frozen state fantastically much each and all the time. And hence there's no probability of existence happening on Mars. The night time floor temperature is approximately ?one hundred twenty °C --- way too chilly for any existence to exist.

2016-10-01 00:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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