Essay Example on Different deicers take different amounts of time

Different deicers take different amounts of time to melt snow this experiment is being conducted in order to find the fastest and most eco friendly deicer that will replace road salt and itś harmful effects We toss more than 20 million tons of sodium chloride on our roadways every winter That s about 13 times more salt than is used by the entire food processing industry And when the snow and ice melts the salt washes away into lakes and streams and harms wildlife Researchers in Minnesota found that in the urban cities 70 of the salt from deicers stays within the area Once the salt gets there it is expensive to remove and even after it still leaves negative impacts by not only hurting the aquatic animals and plants but seeping into wells That in turn affects people on restricted sodium diets and doesn t taste the same One of the most harmful components of road salt is sodium chloride As previously mentioned sodium chloride harms our drinking water aquatic animals and plants and the atmosphere An estimated 40 percent of the country s streams have chloride levels that go beyond safe guidelines for aquatic life because of the negative impacts of road salt These high levels of sodium chloride affects how animals regulate the uptake of salt into their bodies and affects the water circulation in lakes and ponds that prevents oxygen from reaching the bottom of the water In addition it also interferes with a body of water s natural chemistry by lowering the necessary nutrients and therefore dehydrating and killing trees and plants That is why we want the purpose of our investigation to create safer alternatives to road salts using food waste that will be safer for the environment so we can find ways to melt snow and ice in an eco friendly way 

Then for all our other alternatives we are using pickle juice beet juice potato juice and soy sauce Beet juice will be a good option because the sugar in it lowers the freezing point of the ice and will melts at a cooler temperature than its typical 15 F limit Pickle juice will work well because it can melt ice at temperatures as low as 6 F and prevents snow and ice from sticking with pavement making the ice easier to be removed Soy sauce because it s a liquid with a high sodium content so it works well on thin ice in relatively warm temperatures Lastly potato juice would work well because it is more environmentally friendly than rock salt has reduced corrosive effects These are all everyday products that people find in their pantry yet all of these substances have proven to be more effective better for the environment needed in smaller amounts and ultimately more cost efficient We are doing 10 trials and for each trial we will place one teaspoon over the crushed ice mixture and test its effectiveness on the ice Next our dependent variable is time it takes for ice to melt The point of the project is to prove that we can use safer alternatives to road salt that will work just as well so we are recording how long it will take to melt the ice We will have 10 trials for each level meaning that we will time how long the ice is melting for ten times and average them out for each level For each trial we are pouring the deicer over 1 3 cup of crushed ice and waiting to record the data on how the deicer will affect the melting time All in all we want to see what deicer will melt the ice the fastest by recording the time of each trial and finding the fastest one