sidewalk salt
Winter pavement treatment
Sidewalk salt is a granular substance spread on walkways and driveways to melt ice and snow in winter.
Usually rock salt (sodium chloride) or similar compounds, it lowers the freezing point of water to prevent dangerous ice buildup: I need to pick up some sidewalk salt before the storm hits.
Also called ice melt or de-icing salt.
- melting iceFrozen water turning liquid
- meltChange from solid
- winterYear's coldest quarter
- winter stormSevere cold-season weather
- deicerSubstance removing frozen buildup
grit · slush · shovel · crystals · spreading · traction · freeze · pavement · snow removal · brine · calcium chloride · crunchy · white · slippery · concrete · plow · storm · granules
- deicerscalcium chloride, magnesium chloride, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, ice melt
- winter roadssnow plow, snowplow, plowing, de-icing, deicing