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Sugar Vs Ice

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What makes ice melt faster, salt or sugar? For a fact, almost anything that can be dissolved in water will be able to melt ice. (Lynch, 2016, pg 1). Well, salt is known to be used on icy roads during the winter. Salt affects the freezing point of the ice, which causes the falling snow and the snow that is on the ground to melt more and not freeze less. Like salt, sugar also melts the ice by affecting the freezing point of ice. Both sugar and salt affect the formation of the water molecules when they change the freezing point of the ice. Both salt and sugar melt ice, but sugar is not as effective as salt.(Lynch, 2016, pg 1).

The freezing point is the temperature of a substance when it changes from a liquid to a solid.(World Book, B. …show more content…

Chesick, pg 390, para. 5,). The melting points of different substances vary. The melting point of a substance depends on the whether the substance is a pure substance or a mixture. A pure substance melts at a specific temperature. A mixture does not melt at a specific temperature, but at a wide range of temperatures.The melting point of a substance is affected by atmospheric pressure. An increase of the pressure raises the melting point of the substance, but it also lowers the melting point of some substances. The melting point or the point at which water boils is 212 degrees fahrenheit ( 100 degrees celsius.)

Ice has a crystal structure of frozen water molecules.(World Book, Devlin, pg 5, para. 7). Each molecule is made up of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. Each molecule is attached to 4 neighboring molecules by connections known as hydrogen bonds.( World Book, Devlin, pg 5, para 7).An oxygen atom can be part of two hydrogen bonds, while any hydrogen atom can be part of any 1 hydrogen bond. ( World Book, Devlin, pg 5, para 7.Therefore, these molecules can form four bonds. These bonds are long, and they point away from each other forming the ice

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