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► SPRING IS HERE, and with it comes certain rituals: spring cleaning the house, planting the garden, and washing a winter's worth of road salt off the car.A new study published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Omega outlines a plan to eliminate one of these (and unfortunately it isn't spring cleaning).Researchers in China have developed an asphalt additive with slow-release road salt built in that could negate the need for salt spreading.The process works by adding plastic microcap-sules of salt mixed with blast-furnace slag to the asphalt. Normal use of the road causes the micro-capsules' polymer coating to weaken over time, releasing the salt into the asphalt. |