Fact 1: Adding salt to a solid decreases the freezing point of that solid.

Fact 2: Salt is used as a deicer because it lowers the freezing point of water.

Given the two facts above, answer the question "What does salt do to ice?" with the following options: 
- reduce
 - Freezes it
 - watershred
 - Makes more ice
 - Turns it into carbon
 - Melts it
 - evaporation
 - protect them


 

      Melts it   