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Effects of Salt on Ice
Effects of Salt on Ice

Bill Yongco
Angela Enriquez
Trisha Co
Ying Huang Xu

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Table of Contents Background of the Study | Pg.3 | Statement of the Problem | Pg.3 | Significance of the Study | Pg.3 | Scope and Limitations | Pg.4 | Review of Related Literature | Pg.4-5 | Methodology | Pg.6 | Results and discussion | Pg.7-8 | Conclusions | Pg.9 | Recommendation | Pg. 9 | Definition of terms | Pg. 10 | Appendix | Pg.11-14 | Bibliography | Pg. 15 |

A. Background of study
On the countries where snow is abundant or have winter seasons they use salt to melt the snow or ice on the roads, and other areas. When making ice cream in a traditional hand-cranked ice cream maker (an ice cream maker that doesn’t use electricity, and just requires salt and ice and a bit of manual work), you pour salt on the ice surrounding the inner container. Doesn’t the salt melt the ice, why did the people place salt on ice? B. Statement of the problem
On our background we told you that some countries place ice to ice but we also said salt is placed on ice on a hand –cranked ice cream maker. Doesn’t melting happen when the temperature of another thing (may it be air, water, or a solid) in contact is higher than the melting point of the substance (which is the ice which melts at any temperature higher than 0⁰C or 32⁰F) and the ice or snow on the road melts when it is in contact with ice faster so does it mean the salt makes things hotter but does it make that much of a difference, its already freezing cold on winter or on snowy areas? But wait let’s not forget the other statement; salt is placed on ice outside of the container of the ice cream to create the ice cream which we all like to eat so much, clearly the salt has something to do why the ice cream freezes, just imagine is we place ice on cooler and place beverages in the cooler also, we already know the



Bibliography: 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit 3) http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Fire/Science-Ideas-and-Concepts/Heat-energy 4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing-point_depression 5) http://www.freedrinkingwater.com/resource-water-chemistry.htm Many thanks to: Our respective parents who funded this study To the almighty God To the teachers who we bothered and asked some questions with

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