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Deicing

Index Deicing

Deicing is the process of removing snow, ice or frost from a surface. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 69 relations: Agitator (device), Air line, Aircraft bridge, Aircraft deicing fluid, Airport apron, Alcohol (chemistry), Ammonia, Atmospheric icing, Biochemical oxygen demand, Brake, Brine, Calcium chloride, Calcium formate, Calcium magnesium acetate, Car suspension, Chemical formula, Compressed air, Corrosion, Diol, Distillation, Dump truck, Ethanol, Ethylene glycol, Exothermic process, Exothermic reaction, Freezing-point depression, Frost, Glycerol, Gravel, Heat, Ice, Icephobicity, Magnesium chloride, Melting point, Methanol, NPR, Oxygen saturation, Pollution, Potassium acetate, Potassium chloride, Potassium formate, Precipitation, Propylene glycol, PTC rubber, Railroad switch, Railway coupling, Rebar, Runway, Rust, Salt, ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. Ice in transportation
  3. NASA spin-off technologies
  4. Transport safety

Agitator (device)

An agitator is a device or mechanism to put something into motion by shaking or stirring.

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Air line

An air line is a tube, or hose, that contains and carries a compressed air supply.

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Aircraft bridge

Aircraft bridges, including taxiway bridges and runway bridges, bring aircraft traffic over motorways, railways, and waterways.

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Aircraft deicing fluid

In ground deicing of aircraft, aircraft deicing fluid (ADF), aircraft deicer and anti-icer fluid (ADAF) or aircraft anti-icing fluid (AAF) are commonly used for both commercial and general aviation.

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Airport apron

The airport apron, apron, flight line, or ramp is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, boarded, or maintained.

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Alcohol (chemistry)

In chemistry, an alcohol is a type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl functional group bound to carbon.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.

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Atmospheric icing

Atmospheric icing occurs in the atmosphere when water droplets suspended in air freeze on objects they come in contact with.

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Biochemical oxygen demand

Biochemical oxygen demand (also known as BOD or biological oxygen demand) is an analytical parameter representing the amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) consumed by aerobic bacteria growing on the organic material present in a water sample at a specific temperature over a specific time period.

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Brake

A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system.

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Brine

Brine (or briny water) is water with a high-concentration solution of salt (typically sodium chloride or calcium chloride).

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Calcium chloride

Calcium chloride is an inorganic compound, a salt with the chemical formula.

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Calcium formate

Calcium formate is the calcium salt of formic acid.

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Calcium magnesium acetate

Calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) is a deicer and can be used as an alternative to road salt.

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Car suspension

Suspension is the system of tires, tire air, springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two.

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Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.

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Compressed air

Compressed air is air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure.

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Corrosion

Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide. Deicing and Corrosion are chemical processes.

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Diol

A diol is a chemical compound containing two hydroxyl groups (groups).

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Distillation

Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixture and the condensation of the vapors in a still.

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Dump truck

A dump truck, known also as a dumping truck, dump trailer, dumper trailer, dump lorry or dumper lorry or a dumper for short, is used for transporting materials (such as dirt, gravel, or demolition waste) for construction as well as coal.

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Ethanol

Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Ethylene glycol

Ethylene glycol (IUPAC name: ethane-1,2-diol) is an organic compound (a vicinal diol) with the formula.

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Exothermic process

In thermodynamics, an exothermic process is a thermodynamic process or reaction that releases energy from the system to its surroundings, usually in the form of heat, but also in a form of light (e.g. a spark, flame, or flash), electricity (e.g. a battery), or sound (e.g. explosion heard when burning hydrogen).

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Exothermic reaction

In thermochemistry, an exothermic reaction is a "reaction for which the overall standard enthalpy change ΔH⚬ is negative." Exothermic reactions usually release heat.

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Freezing-point depression

Freezing-point depression is a drop in the maximum temperature at which a substance freezes, caused when a smaller amount of another, non-volatile substance is added.

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Frost

Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface.

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Glycerol

Glycerol, also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.

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Ice

Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice.

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Icephobicity

Icephobicity (from ice and Greek φόβος phobos "fear") is the ability of a solid surface to repel ice or prevent ice formation due to a certain topographical structure of the surface.

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Magnesium chloride

Magnesium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula.

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Melting point

The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.

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Methanol

Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH).

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Oxygen saturation

Oxygen saturation (symbol SO2) is a relative measure of the concentration of oxygen that is dissolved or carried in a given medium as a proportion of the maximal concentration that can be dissolved in that medium at the given temperature.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Potassium acetate

Potassium acetate (also called potassium ethanoate), (CH3COOK) is the potassium salt of acetic acid.

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Potassium chloride

Potassium chloride (KCl, or potassium salt) is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine.

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Potassium formate

Potassium formate, HCO2K, HCOOK, or KHCO2, is the potassium salt of formic acid.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.

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Propylene glycol

Propylene glycol (IUPAC name: propane-1,2-diol) is a viscous, colorless liquid.

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PTC rubber

PTC rubber is a silicone rubber which conducts electricity with a resistivity that increases exponentially with increasing temperature for all temperatures up to a temperature where the resistivity grows to infinity.

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Railroad switch

A railroad switch, turnout, or points is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or where a spur or siding branches off.

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Railway coupling

A coupling or coupler is a mechanism, typically located at each end of a rail vehicle, that connects them together to form a train.

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Rebar

Rebar (short for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement, is a steel bar used as a tension device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid the concrete under tension.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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Rust

Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Salt (chemistry)

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions (cations) and negatively charged ions (anions), which results in a compound with no net electric charge (electrically neutral).

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Sand

Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.

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Sidewalk

A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway is a path along the side of a road.

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Snow

Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.

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Snowplow

A snowplow (also snow plow, snowplough or snow plough) is a device intended for mounting on a vehicle, used for removing snow and ice from outdoor surfaces, typically those serving transportation purposes.

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Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.

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Sodium formate

Sodium formate, HCOONa, is the sodium salt of formic acid, HCOOH.

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Solvation

Solvation describes the interaction of a solvent with dissolved molecules. Deicing and Solvation are chemical processes.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Sugar beet

A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and which is grown commercially for sugar production.

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Taxiway

A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Ultrahydrophobicity

In chemistry and materials science, ultrahydrophobic (or superhydrophobic) surfaces are highly hydrophobic, i.e., extremely difficult to wet.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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Urea

Urea, also called carbamide (because it is a diamide of carbonic acid), is an organic compound with chemical formula.

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Water column

The (oceanic) water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the physical (temperature, salinity, light penetration) and chemical (pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrient salts) characteristics of seawater at different depths for a defined geographical point.

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Winter service vehicle

A winter service vehicle (WSV), or snow removal vehicle, is a vehicle specially designed or adapted to clear thoroughfares of ice and snow.

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Wood ash

Wood ash is the powdery residue remaining after the combustion of wood, such as burning wood in a fireplace, bonfire, or an industrial power plant.

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See also

Ice in transportation

NASA spin-off technologies

Transport safety

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deicing

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, Salt (chemistry), Sand, Sewage treatment, Sidewalk, Snow, Snowplow, Sodium chloride, Sodium formate, Solvation, Steel, Sugar beet, Taxiway, Toronto Star, Ultrahydrophobicity, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Urea, Water column, Winter service vehicle, Wood ash.