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Why does salt reduce the freezing point of water?
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[QUOTE="lekh2003, post: 6160420, member: 635159"] I've been looking into how adding sodium chloride or calcium chloride to snow reduces the freezing point, and why this occurs. The really simple reason I found on this website: [URL]https://www.thoughtco.com/how-salt-melts-ice-3976057[/URL] , which simply stated that the salt ions get in the way of the atoms or molecules coming closer together and creating a solid. The more complex reason I found was related to entropy, which I did not understand. I understand entropy, but the explanation on this website is not making much sense: [URL]https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1580[/URL] . I tried making some sense of it, but it all seems very convoluted. Why is it absolutely required that we need to create a net entropy gain? I am referring to this explanation: Please help me understand what the relation to entropy is. [/QUOTE]
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