de-icing
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Application areas
- Roadways
- Trains and rail switches
- Aviation
- Ground de-icing of aircraft
- In-flight de-icing
- Airport pavement
- Water agitator de-icer
- De-icing chemicals
- Salts
- Organics
- Environmental impact and mitigation<!--linked from 'Forest pathology'-->
- Recycling
- Road salt
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|An Aeroflot [[Airbus A330 being de-iced at Sheremetyevo International Airport]] thumb|300px|Econ Salt Spreader
De-icing is the process of removing snow, ice or frost from a surface. Anti-icing is the application of chemicals that not only de-ice but also remain on a surface and continue to delay the reformation of ice for a certain period of time, or prevent adhesion of ice to make mechanical removal easier.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “de-icing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.