will salt separate from water if its frozen?!


Question: Will salt separate from water if its frozen?
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>Well, in a manner of speaking, YES! Notice that ice cubes made from unfiltered tap water typically have a white center to them. The whiteness in the center of the cube is caused by calcium and magnesium that concentrate towards the center of the cube as the water freezes. In a manner of speaking then, that is a kind of separation by migration of those substances towards the center of the cube, leaving the rest of the cube at a lower concentration of those substances. Separation is a physical removal of something to a concentrated form, and that is exactly what happens in an ice cube.



Nope. Compare it to sugar dissolved in water - think popsicles. Same idea. It will stay homogenous.

If it did, water shortages would be easy to fix by melting some ocean water.
It will take a lower temperature to freeze though, fyi.



no.. it will only be separate through evaporation



No it will not, it would just settle on the bowwom.



I dont think so, but that wouldnt be to hard to test...



No



No! :D



no




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