When it snows, it pours – but why do municipalities treat the roads with salt? A chemist explains how salt affects water and ...

Ice melt is an easy way to keep your patio safe during the snowy winter months, but it's important to use the right kind or ...

Without using them ... exothermic heat to immediately start melting snow and ice, enabling them to work up to four times faster than traditional rock salt. While we can’t verify that the ...

could get rid of snow and ice by themselves? (…with the help of our friend, the electron.) A few days ago we shared a project about building an epic snow-melting system right into your driveway.

Just imagine it—roads that stay ice free without requiring regular ... And while road salt does serve its purpose of melting ice, once a fresh layer of ice forms, drivers are back in peril ...