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Why does salt reduce the freezing point of water?
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[QUOTE="hurreechunder, post: 6160584, member: 659917"] I’d see it thus - with salt, at the same temperature there are more configurations of water + salt molecules (more disordered, more entropy) where the salt “gets in the way” and prevents the formation of ice. So the water needs to cool down even further to have the same probability of h2o molecules lining up to form ice as under the no salt scenario. So the melting point of ice is lowered. What this also means is that it’s not just salt, even adding sugar should have the same impact as you just need things to “get in the way”. Conversely, no additive can raise the melting point of ice, only lower it. Short of chemical bonds forming and breaking, that is. Are the last two true? [/QUOTE]
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