However, road salt (sodium chloride) is not the kindest of chemicals. Although it's undoubtedly effective at melting ice, it can also corrode concrete and vehicles, cause harm to plants and pets ...

Rocky's Ace Hardware in Fitchburg is down to their last two pallets of salt. Residents are searching high and low for ice melt ahead of the storm. "We had another brand and as soon as a pallet ...

However, with the prediction of snow in the forecast, many took to the stores Wednesday to stock up on rock salt and ice melt. But, many shops were short on supplies. Diane Spadafora, who works at ...

"Computationally guided search for melts with particular physicochemical properties might substantially simplify and accelerate the development of next-generation nuclear reactors, since the number of ...

The method to pursue in mixing them is as follows :First, melt the least fusible of the ... difference as possible between the heat of the molten metal in the crncible, and that to be added ...

argues a paper from a United Nations think tank that provides the first estimate of global brine production from desalination. Producing fresh water in the driest parts of the world by removing the ...

WELLESLEY, Mass. — A shortage of rock salt and ice melt has Massachusetts communities planning for weeks ahead this winter season. The two previous mild winters have dictated what suppliers have in ...