de-icing salt | abrasive | highway salt | ice-control salt | road salt | thawing salt

sodium chloride [ salt | common salt | common table salt | table salt | rock salt | sea salt | marine salt | halite ]

molten chemical-bath dip brazing [ salt-bath brazing ]

salt chlorinator | salt water chlorinator | salt electrolyser

smelling salts | smelling-salts

kosher salt [ kasher salt ]

clearing ice | de-icing

automatic de-icing system

vacuum salt

condiment [ mustard ]

I know they've done studies on salting highways, ice control, which have resulted in some minor improvements, but you're right, there have been no great strides in the last 50 years.

Highly Recommended Award Winners in 1992 are :- * BP Exploration, of the UK, for the good management of its on-shore Southern England oil-field (Wytch Farm, Dorset) * a combined British entry from the University of York and Contract Chemicals for a new form a catalyst based on clay that has large potential to improve, environmentally, a range of chemical processes * BP Chemicals, UK, for a new airfield runway de-icer that does no harm to fish or other life when it runs off into water-courses * Technology Transfer category, for technologies that can be transfered to third world countries - the French operation (G.P.S. Salt Producers and Organ ...[+++]isation/Univers-Sel) that enables villagers to recover salt without the need to burn timber * and to a process for recycling scrap motorcar tires into useful material, from the Dutch firm, Vredestein Icopro BV.