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Road salt, an Uncommon card
Road salt is a salt used mainly as an anti-slip and deicing agent for roads, sidewalks and other transportation surfaces during the winter.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Road salt quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Road salt card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
When used in its solid form, road salt is often pre-wet to ______ the ice-melting process.
Answer
accelerate. When used in its solid form, road salt is often pre-wet to accelerate the ice-melting process. From the Road salt article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji 81 · Road salt 78 · Anthozoa 74 · Lychee 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji 740,000 · Abelisauridae 60,000 · Road salt 36,000 · Sven 3,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The most commonly used form is sodium chloride, though other salts such as calcium chloride and magnesium chloride are also employed, especially in colder temperatures.
- When used in its solid form, road salt is often pre-wet to accelerate the ice-melting process.
- Road salt lowers the freezing point of water through freezing-point depression and thus prevents ice formation, which in turn improves traction and safety for vehicles and pedestrians.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Road salt article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Road salt
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Road salt (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tench1970, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
