Melting Ice

Most recent answer: 10/22/2007

Q:
Do substances other than salt melt ice?
- Tyrel (age 10)
Sandalwood Elementary, Baltimore,MD (USA)
A:
Sure, anything which dissolves in water will melt ice if the ice is almost warm enough to melt otherwise. Sugar would work, for example. We have a lot of answers on this question, which you should be able to find by searching under ’ice melting’.

Mike W.

(published on 10/22/2007)