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Navigating an icy road can be pretty dangerous.

And while applying a coating of salt is the time -tested method for rendering a frozen highway drivable, that salt has major downsides.

It's toxic for plants, wildlife, and freshwater ecosystems.

It contaminates our drinking water and air quality.

It can even damage our cars, which feels a bit counterproductive.

So how do we make winter roads safe for both drivers and the environment?

Well, science says we have options.

Salting a road is by far the most common de -icing technique.

When salt mixes with water, the resulting solution has a lower freezing temperature than water by itself.

However, this is true for all kinds of solutions, not just salty ones.

Thanks to a scientific principle called freezing point depression,

the temperature at which plain H2O freezes is always higher than its freezing point when something is dissolved into it.

Essentially, the salt keeps water molecules from forming solid ice crystals because the salt interrupts the watery ice structure.

The temperature at which the salty water eventually freezes depends on how salty the solution is.

And although salting roads with the classic sodium chloride is effective, it wreaks havoc on plants and wildlife, contributes to poor air, soil,

and water quality, ruins infrastructure like water treatment plants and bridges, and corrodes our stuff, like the steel in cars.

Which is why some places are experimenting with a few solutions to this chili conundrum.

We can start simple.

Even a different kind of salt can make a difference.

The sodium chloride you put on your food is chemically the same as the rock salt

or halite that's spread on roads to melt ice.

It's cheap, effective, and the infrastructure for delivering it to roads is already in place.

The problem is that the chlorides in the sodium chloride don't ever break down in the environment.

But other salts are better for the environment, if only

because less is required in solution to achieve the same freezing point depression we get with a higher concentration of sodium chloride.

Remember, a salt is just any compound that has positive and negative ions, which together make a neutral charge.

There are a lot of options for what salts you can use.

For instance, magnesium chloride and calcium chloride lower the freezing point more effectively due to some interesting chemistry.

When sodium chloride dissolves in water, it dissociates into two ions, Na -plus and Cl -minus.

Magnesium chloride and calcium chloride, on the other hand,

dissociate into three ions each since they're each made of three total atoms instead of the two in NaCl. And

because the number of dissolved particles in a solution is what determines how low the freezing point of a solution can get,

salts like calcium chloride can do the same job as sodium chloride while using less raw salt to do it.

Some states like Connecticut have used magnesium chloride salts for de -icing, citing the lower cost of the solution.

However, there is a downside.

They're still somewhat corrosive to cars, making them less than ideal.

And these salts are also bad for the environment when they accumulate.

It just doesn't happen as fast as with sodium chloride, because less is needed to do the job.

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So, if your ears perked up at the mere mention of the environment, just wait until you hear about this next de -icing alternative.

Of course, there are other options beyond salts for de -icing roads.

Some state road agencies have tested all kinds of weird stuff.

– cheese brine, pickle juice, beet juice, and… pig pee, to name a few?

Welcome to the wild world of potentially eco -friendly methods for melting road ice.

Byproducts from vodka distilleries or sugar beet processing facilities contain a lot of sugars, which, when added to road salts,

helps lower the melting point of the ice, meaning the salt will work better at even lower temperatures.

But not all eco -options are created equal.

For instance, some communities have complained about the smell from that beet wastewater,

water, and some research shows that distillery byproducts can also cause some of those ecosystem problems that we're trying to avoid.

Urea is also marketed as an eco -friendly solution to road salt,

since it's also water -soluble and makes a solution with a lower freezing point than pure water.

And while urea is great at de -icing and is generally safe for pets and children to be around, there are some downsides.

It doesn't perform well below negative 4 degrees Celsius, and once it gets into a waterway, it decreases dissolved oxygen and causes algal blooms.

Plus, urea is actually somewhat expensive, at least compared to the other options out there.

Still, there's definitely a market for more of these less harmful options for de -icing.

The other way to help de -ice our roads is also the way to make pickles.

Brine.

But I'm not talking about your leftover pickle juice.

Brine is just water that's got a lot of salts dissolved in it.

And using brine on the roads is a pretty neat way to prevent the ice from forming in the first place.

When you de -ice a road that's already been snowed upon,

transportation agencies use wet rock salt to break the bond between the ice and the road, making it safer to drive.

But the idea behind the brine is to apply liquid salt to the road ahead of time.

Some places have started brining the roads with liquid salt solution before the snow or ice shows up.

This limits the amount of ice that can form on the road to begin with, and uses about a quarter of the salt of de -icing.

Brining requires a lot of infrastructure and planning.

A community needs trucks with big tanks and pumps to spray the brine onto the pavement's surface.

This stuff can be expensive.

However, communities that have invested in brining roads have reported reducing the overall cost of maintaining winter roads,

even after accounting for the extra equipment and staffing.

And the reason for the savings is simple, they're just not buying as much salt.

So, while nothing is perfect, there are absolutely some ways we can move ahead on making our roads safer and more eco -friendly.

Let's just hope they don't all smell like pig pee.

Thanks for watching.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «How To Clear Icy Roads, With Science». Чаще всего повторяются слова: salt, road, chloride, solution, ice. В этом видео 60 предложений и 1197 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 6:02. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 198 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. Только 78% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.

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15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
freeze глагол	/ˈfɹiːz/	замерза́ть, замёрзнуть
sodium существительное	/ˈsəʊ.di.əm/	на́трий
ion существительное	/ˈaɪ.ɑn/	ио́н
puzzle существительное	/ˈpʌzəl/	зага́дка, затрудне́ние
infrastructure существительное	/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/	инфраструкту́ра
juice существительное	/d͡ʒuːs/	сок
chemistry существительное	/ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/	хи́мия
melt глагол	/mɛlt/	та́ять, раста́ять
calcium существительное	/ˈkælsi.əm/	ка́льций
salty прилагательное	/ˈsɔlti/	солёный
lesson существительное	/ˈlɛs.ən/	уро́к, ле́кция
liquid существительное	/ˈlɪk.wɪd/	жи́дкость
wildlife существительное	/ˈwaɪldlaɪf/	ди́кая приро́да, жива́я приро́да
ecosystem существительное	/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/	экосисте́ма
technique существительное	/tɛkˈniːk/	те́хника

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
figure out глагол	разбира́ться, разобра́ться
show up глагол	объявля́ться, объяви́ться

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	have used · have tested · have complained
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	is dissolved · is required · is needed

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 9 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например they're, doesn't, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «sh» и «zh»: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, freshwater /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, ecosystem /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: liquid /ˈlɪk.wɪd/, wildlife /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/, freshwater /ˈfɹɛʃˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/, waterway /ˈwɔːtəweɪ/, watery /ˈwɔtəɹi/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: harmful /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/, havoc /ˈhævək/, halite /ˈhæl.aɪt/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, downside /ˈdaʊnˌsaɪd/, liquid /ˈlɪk.wɪd/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/

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Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как freeze, sodium, ion.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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