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What kind of salt works best for warm 50 degree weather?
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I thought I saw them using bags of Ammonium Nitrate at the summer camps, but I don't know where I would get that fertilizer. What else works the best? I need it for skiing this weekend in the midwest!
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If it's warm enough you can use plain old rock salt. Go down to the hardware store, or I've even seen some at Walmart and they can sell you a 40lb bag for around 5 bucks (it's usually used for water purification.) Use it if the sun is out, the snow is melting, or the best if it's raining you will have a skating rink in about 10 minutes. Don't use it if it's snowing at all, or if it gets cloudy and cool, this will only give you a pile of unusable mush that no one will like. I love answering questions about salt it's so much fun, keep them coming.
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Are you talking about just plain solid calcium? Cause uh....Calcium when mixed with water explodes.
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^hahaha that would be interesting to see him to try it
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I guess Ammonium Nitrate is the best, but the head of the park staff at my mountian said they cant get it anymore because of 9/11 they think they are using it to make bombs or something
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thats a good emo joke.....
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if its 50 out the snow shouldpack pretty well on its own
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potassium will work.
francium will too but it's rarer
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haha...you cant exactly go down to the hardware store and buy a 40 lb. bag of solid francium.
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I always use nitrate in the summer. It's the best when it's warm. And reguler de-icing salt is good during the winter.
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Just go to Walmart and get rock salt. It's cheap, and works fun. just let it set before you ride it.
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lol well if you do find francium throw a huge batch of it in water and run
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i was talking about calcium chloride... AKA calcium because i was to lazy to type the rest.
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ahh good ol chemistry class
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Well then you shoulda said calcium chloride =P because you can't just "assume" people will put a chloride after it, chem doesn't work that way lol
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pure sodium explodes when it hits water
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when it hits air, you mean?
pure sodium is stored in water.
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try mortons kosher sea salt
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my chem teacher wasnt very smart...and somehow got ahold of a VERY small amount of potassium...and took it out of the water...he almost lost his hand
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To Clarify, Pure Sodium will not explode when it hits water. Pure potassium will not explode when it hits water, it fizzes a bit and shoots all over(staying in the water) but no explosion, sometimes flames. Look at the periodic table the stuff in the same column as those and further below it become more explosive further down the list. Francium will slaughter you if you don't handle it properly which is why most people will never get their hands on it.
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Hmmm I coulda sworn that anything in the second column of the periodic table exploded when it came in contact with water (well, almost everyting) and that is Sodium and Potassium included. If you get a pretty decent size chuck of Sodium, it will blow up. Some kids blew up a toilet at my school a few years ago, almost killed them. And your chem teacher, he didn't take the stuff out of water, Potassium and Sodium are stored in oils, i'm almost positive on that, and if you aren't careful, the oils can dry up over time and lead to some very dangerous situations.
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potassium sparks/explodes if you put it in water, it wouldnt be stored in water...
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do you know how expensive that shit is?
it's like $7 a box at the grocery store in town.
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sarcasm meter= very very high
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sarcasm meter= very very high
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potassium/sodium are stored in oil cuz otherwize they react with the tiny amounts of water in the air and it explodes.
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normal mortons table salt works fine 55cents for a small container which lasts for a day or 2 depending the area you salt, some rock salt contains bits of rocks for traction so be careful or you may end up buying the wrong stuff and make your jump/inrun/whatever slower.
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Ah I was just doing my eng chem assignment. Why does it have to follow me to NS?
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If you really wanted to be lazy you would have typed CaCl. Not sure if that is totally right but its close enough for anybody to get it.
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krypton.....
but seriously rock salt should do the trick.
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this almost makes an ns chemistry cult a good idea. Anyone else think thats a good idea?
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