On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:16:26 +0100, Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The real reason salt "melts" ice is that the affinity of water to salt > ions is greater than the affinity towards other water molecules. So > the salt grabs the water away from the ice crystal grid. > > So there...:-) >
Thank you, Professor Oksne... <g> cheers, frank (seriously, I never knew how or why salt melts ice - now I do) -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
