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Examples of deice
deice
Officials say passengers should expect departure delays as airlines deice planes.
From the sacbee.com
The use of salt to deice pavement can be harmful to aquatic life in urban streams.
From the sciencedaily.com
The union represents bag handlers and workers who deice, clean and fuel planes and move freight.
From the bloomberg.com
When I told them of the dilemma, my kind neighbor volunteered to use his deicer to deice his car.
From the post-gazette.com
Freezing rain in Indiana caused five salt trucks to slide into ditches Saturday as they worked to deice roads.
From the dallasnews.com
Salt is also used by many public and private organizations and individuals to deice parking lots, walkways and driveways.
From the sciencedaily.com
AirTran Airways canceled about 80 and other flights were delayed by the need to deice wings, spokesman Tad Hutcheson said.
From the usatoday.com
Some schools closed, but Portland International Airport was open and flights were operating normally after crews worked through the night to deice runways.
From the bostonherald.com
- Defrost: make or become free of frost or ice; "Defrost the car window"
- (Deicing) De-icing is the process of removing frozen contaminant, snow, ice, slush, from a surface.
- To remove the ice from something
- (DE-ICING) OF A WATER AREA. The disappearance of ice from a part or the whole of a water area due either to the complete melting of the ice or to its drifting away from the area under observation leaving open water.
- (De-icing) Removal of ice accretion on an aircraft at an airport - can be done by use of fluids, heating systems and expanding rubber membranes.
- (De-icing) The process of removing ice and accumulated snow from a road surface. Calcium chloride is the most commonly used deicer as it is readily available and the least expensive to purchase. Road surfaces are generally not treated and plowed until two or more inches of snow have accumulated. ...
- (De-icing) The process of spraying a glycol solution on the wings of an aircraft to prevent the formation of ice during inclement weather conditions.
- (De-icing) the practice of applying chemicals to roadways or other surfaces to remove previously formed frost or ice.
- (Deicing) A reactive snow and ice control strategy of applying a freeze point depressant on top of snow or ice during or after a storm to break an ice/pavement bond that has already formed. ...
