that makes sense, my southern brain didn’t even process that road salts could cause corrosion haha
Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 21 hours agoProbably salt on roads. Sea air kinda rots everything, salty roads just the bottom.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
In the north there’s even people who will specifically head south to buy a car that’s never spent a winter driving on salted roads. Road salt corrodes so badly it’s nasty
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Salt only lowers melting point around 4°C, below is split. The occasional fire for heating the engine on the other hand…
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I don’t pretend to be an expert on salt (though I have certainly listened to the testimony of experts on salt), but I do know there are different compounds that all fall under the general heading of “salt,” despite some of them not being salt at all. And that heading is probably one coined by a layman like myself.
As far as whether the other compounds are responsible for corrosion the way tradition salt would be, I have no idea!