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In today's video,
we want to find out what ice melt is,
how it's different from salt, and if you can melt it.
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This bag is ice melt.
It comes in pretty large quantities
because it's usually used for spreading on ice
and snow to melt it,
so that you can walk on it,
and not have snow and ice to deal with.
And this is just regular salt.
This particular stuff is meant for making ice cream,
but it should work pretty well.
For rock salt, historically,
has been used for melting snow and ice.
But we now have better newer compositions
that we call ice melt,
and those are thrown on the sidewalk,
and you get rid of all your snow and your ice.
It makes it safer to walk on.
So we want to look at a few of the differences,
test which one actually works better,
regular salt or ice melt,
and then we want to see what happens
if we heat up the ice melt.
Will it melt through snow better?
Can we get it into a liquid
that we just like pour onto the snow,
and melt it all at once?
Lots of experiments.
Lots of things to learn.
Here's the basic idea.
We're going to take some ice melt,
test its melting properties versus regular rock salt,
and then see what happens to it if we heated up or melt it.
All right.
First, let's just take a look at these.
The rock salt here.
This is sodium chloride.
This is table salt.
Basically, it's just larger chunks of it.
This particular ice melt is a combination
of magnesium chloride and calcium chloride.
Calcium chloride and magnesium chloride are supposed to work
better than sodium chloride for melting ice and snow.
That's the first thing that we want to test.
We're going to get a tray full of both of them,
and then sprinkle some of both types of salt on top,
and we'll see which one melt it faster.
But even before we do that,
let's throw some ice melt into the furnace,
and get that melting.
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Okay, we've got two handfuls, about the same size.
Regular salt that Calli is holding,
and ice melt salt that I'm holding.
Now, we're just going to sprinkle them
over these trays of snow.
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I stand by mine is prettier than yours.
I think you are correct.
While we're waiting for that salt to do its thing,
what do you think we should do?
You want to build a snowman?
It doesn't have to be a snowman.
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Since its frosting, you can lick your brush.
In snow, probably not a good idea.
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Our snowman is looking pretty good.
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Ice melt.
That's exciting.
What does it do?
Oh, it's warm like summer.
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Does Olaf know what snow melt does to snow?
I'm going to tell him.
Don't you dare.
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Whoa!
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So, it turns out, liquid hot ice melt--
He's fine.
Is not really good for snowman.
He's, he's fine.
Every--
This is fine.
He's okay.
Everything's fine.
Our generic unnamed non-trademarked snowman
sustained a little bit of damage,
but I think we can probably fix him back up.
He's.. He doesn't need fixing.
He's perfect just the way he is.
Yeah, untouched.
Absolutely.
He's beautiful.
I am wonderful.
Hooah!
She's become the villain.
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Do you want to break a Snowman?
Bye generic snowman.
Musical snowman who loves summer.
He wanted to know what happened with heat.
We showed him.
Our two trays of snow have now been sitting there
with the salt and ice melt in them for over an hour,
and what do you think?
They look fairly similar to me.
Fairly similar.
I think that the one with the rock salt
is actually slumping a little bit more naturally.
Where as you can see, the pock marks
of the ice melt is caused here.
But you mentioned
that the differences in cold can affect
how these are reacting.
It's true.
The rock salt itself is going to help get rid of snow and ice.
The main advantage of using the ice melt,
I mean, magnesium chloride and the calcium chloride,
those are supposed to help keep melting the ice
at an even lower temperature.
And what's happening here is not melting the ice
in the traditional sense.
We actually have a chemical reaction going
on that's lowering the freezing point of the ice,
so that it no longer is able to stay solid
at the same temperature.
The sodium chloride disassociates into two ions,
but calcium chloride
and magnesium chloride disassociate into three.
The individual ions interact with the water,
and prevent it from crystallizing so more ions,
means more water and less ice.
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