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Question

Salt is used to melt snow and keep roads clear during the winter in many cities. Land adjacent to de-iced roads often ends up with a high concentration of salt in the soil. Explain why plants growing near salted roads may appear wilted in the spring.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So plants suffer from wilting or a loss of rigidity in the spring. If they are grown near salted roads because I want you to think about what it means for salted roads to exist near the plan. It means that N. A. C. L. Is going to leak into the soil and it's going to be absorbed or it's going to be very near the plant. When the N. A C. L. Comes in contact with water, it breaks down into any plus and cl minus. Water being a very polar substance is going to be attracted to these N. A plus and it's going to attract the cl minus to its hydrogen because of this water is going to leak out from the plant into the soil where the salt is present. Because of this water being grown near salted rose is going to cause water loss for the plants. So that is the final answer to a question and I really hope this video helped it.

Salt is used to melt snow and keep roads clear during the winter in many cities. Land adjacent to de-iced roads often ends up with a high concentration of salt in the soil. Explain why plants growing near salted roads may appear wilted in the spring.

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