by dsc » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:24 am
Hi guys,
the reason sand is used is because it works quite well on both snow and ice, giving extra friction. Salt lowers the melting point of water, but tends to cover/corode anything metal it touches. This is probably the reason why it's mixed with sand, a 50-50 mixture would work well to give you more grip probably and would solve (at least partially) the problem of not enough salt in the UK.
Funny enough -17*C was the thing that welcomed me in to Poland when I went there for Christmas. Nice to walk around, but not so great to drive around with ice covering most roads.
Hopefully Cakes has a lot of muffins stashed somewhere in the house and will be fine for the next few days:)
Regards,
dsc.
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