Adding salt to a solid decreases the freezing point of that solid, and salt is used as a deicer because it lowers the freezing point of water. Given these facts, what does salt do to ice among the following options:
- reduce
 - Freezes it
 - watershred
 - Makes more ice
 - Turns it into carbon
 - Melts it
 - evaporation
 - protect them


 

      Melts it   