De Icing facts
While investigating facts about De Icing Salt and De Icing Planes, I found out little known, but curios details like:
More salt is used for de-icing roads (8% of global manufactured salt) than for human consumption (6%).
how deicing works?
Surplus jet engines were used to de-ice railroads in Russia
What deicing means?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what's de-icing. Here are 13 of the best facts about De Icing Spray and De Icing Wind Turbines I managed to collect.
what deicing salt?
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Suicide rates in the Red Army during the 1970s was 18X as high as in the US Army. With alcohol being banned, soldiers would sometimes drink aircraft de-icing agent.
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In France ice cream became available to the public in 1660. Legends suggest that Marco Polo brought the ice cream recipe back from China and Catherine de Medici brought the recipe to France. Catherine de Medici was an Italian noblewoman who married King Henry II, and became Queen of France.
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Jules Verne published Master Zacharius and A Winter Amid the Ice in 1854, again in the magazine Musee de famille.
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When an inaugural flight from the US landed in Magadan, Russia in the 1990s, the airport had no de-icing service. The pilot rounded up every bottle of vodka around, and sprayed it on the wings with a garden hose.
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The Hôtel de Glace, a hotel in Quebec City that is made entirely of snow and ice. Each year, it is reconstrcuted over the course of a month with a different theme.
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Ten percent of all the salt mined in the world each year is used to de-ice the roads in America.
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The U.S. state of Wisconsin uses a cheese brine to de-ice their roads during the winter.
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The Poland and Slovakia used MIG-15 Fighter Jets to de-ice railroad tracks
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In parts of Siberia it gets so cold that farmers have to literally de-ice their horses
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The stalinist agent who murdered Trotsky with an ice-axe in Mexico City was the brother-in-law of famed film director Vittorio De Sica.
Why driving is important?
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Wisconsin uses briny water from cheese production to de-ice their roads in winter.
