Salt Water Experiment

Salt and the effect it has on water. Do you like salt? Do you put it on your food to make it taste better? Salt doesn’t just make food taste better; it can change the freezing and boiling point of water. I bet you didn’t know that! There’s a reason for that, but I’ll explain that a little later. First, let’s find out if salt can actually change the freezing and boiling point of water. To do so, we need to do an experiment. Now, if you’re going to do an experiment, you’re going to need a hypothesis. Let’s use mine. I said “if we know salt in the ocean’s water can affect its temperature, then I wondered if adding salt to regular tap water and bottled water would raise the water’s boiling point and lower its freezing point because even though the ocean doesn’t boil or freeze salt still
If you don’t know, a freezing point is the limit water can go to before it freezes. For regular water, this is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. A boiling point is the limit water can go to before it boils. For regular water, this is 212 degrees Fahrenheit. While I did this experiment, I used Celsius. That’s what was on the thermometer. After doing the experiment, I had to research it to find out more about salt and the effect it has on water. It turns out my hypothesis was correct. Salt did change the freezing and boiling point of water. And not just the ocean and salt water is affected by this. During winter, people put salt on the icy roads to make it safer to drive on. Now you may be asking yourself “why? There is still going to be ice on the roads.” Well, that’s where you’re wrong. The ice is already below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, but putting salt on top of the ice automatically lowers the freezing point, thus melting the ice back into a liquid. This is why the ocean doesn’t completely freeze. During winter, the temperature around the world is different. But at one point or another, the temperature gets below 32 degrees. 97% of the ocean is seawater