road salt
Icy highway treatment
Road salt is salt spread on roads and highways to melt ice and prevent freezing in winter weather.
The salt lowers water's freezing point, keeping pavement safer for driving.
Usually sodium chloride or calcium chloride, road salt corrodes vehicles and damages roadside vegetation: The undercarriage rusted from years of road salt exposure.
- deicerSubstance removing frozen buildup
- anti-icingPreventing ice accumulation
- glycolTwo-hydroxyl alcohol compound
- calcium chlorideHygroscopic salt for de-icing
- grittersIce-prevention vehicles
groundwater pollution · environmental impact · magnesium chloride · frost heave · ice melt · sodium chloride · brine · halite · slush · freeze-thaw cycles · deicing · plowing · freeze · white · crunchy · sodium · sidewalk · thaw
- wintersnow, ice, cold, frozen, frost
- ice melterscalcium chloride, magnesium chloride, de-icer, ice melt, brine
- deicerscalcium chloride, magnesium chloride, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, ice melt
- water pollutionsewage, industrial waste, contaminants, algal bloom, toxic waste
- winter roadssnow plow, snowplow, plowing, de-icing, deicing
- bulk salt types