Rock salt remains a crystal until the humidity reaches 70 percent, which doesn’t happen much during the winter. But magnesium chloride dissolves when there is only about 20 to 30 percent humidity.

It seems that the three-dimensional structure of a rock salt crystal performs up to three times better than any layered oxide, which is where the excitement comes from.

It seems that the three-dimensional structure of a rock salt crystal performs up to three times better than any layered oxide, which is where the excitement comes from.

Or maybe the coccus in the rock-us. Researchers looking at ancient Australian halite cores have reported 830-million-year-old microbes inside the rock salt crystals -- and they think some of the ...

THE plasticity of rock salt crystals when immersed in water has been the subject of much attention recently1. The fact that the effect takes place more easily in hot water suggests that the rate ...

Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is not an exact science; you want to create salty water.) ...

The rock salt, once it comes into contact with the ice or snow, dissolves and turns the frozen precipitation into brine. This salt water then drips off my car when I park it in my garage. The ...

Researchers looking at ancient Australian halite cores have reported 830-million-year-old microbes inside the rock salt crystals -- and they think some of the microbes might even be alive.