Road Salts

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Science

 

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Curtis M

 

Date added:

February 1, 2016

 

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University

 

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A

 

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The most commonly used road salt is sodium chloride, which is also the most inexpensive and readily available. Recently after more than a half century of its widespread use in North America, the use of sodium chloride on the roadways have come under scrutiny by the environmental and scientific communities as well as regulators and legislators...
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The main residual effects of road salts and deicers is the degradation of road side habitat, such as grasses, wildlife kills, and water quality issues. According to the National Research Council road salt in the United States ranges from 8 million to 12 million tons of sodium chloride per year. In the presentation also, it stated that the wildlife could be substantially effected because the road salt can severely damage vegetation, which is by far the most used food resource by mammals...
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