I wanted to use the potassium chloride to melt the ice and snow from my sidewalk. When I opened the bag the pellets were the size of charcoal briquettes.
umm how do you accidentally buy potassuimcloride without feeling the size jk but really i would say grind them then use them next year when you have snow
Real easy when you're in a hurry and pick up the first thing you see. I know it was dumb not to look or feel the size first. I will probably grind them down to use for next winter.
Ugh, I don't know how good that would taste. Potassium chloride tastes pretty bad straight. I guess if you mix it with regular salt and used sparingly in food, it might be okay, but it seems a lot of trouble. If you were going to use them for sidewalks, it shouldn't be too hard to break the chicklets (supposedly that's actually what they're called, at least by the local potash mine) into small chunks suitable for the sidewalk. Toss them in a bag and gently break with a mallet or something, I'd suggest.
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10 years ago
What use did you anticipate for the pellets? Potassium chloride works just as well as sodium chloride in a water softener, for example.
Answer 10 years ago
I wanted to use the potassium chloride to melt the ice and snow from my sidewalk. When I opened the bag the pellets were the size of charcoal briquettes.
Answer 10 years ago
umm how do you accidentally buy potassuimcloride without feeling the size jk but really i would say grind them then use them next year when you have snow
Answer 10 years ago
Real easy when you're in a hurry and pick up the first thing you see. I know it was dumb not to look or feel the size first. I will probably grind them down to use for next winter.
Answer 10 years ago
okay can you pick my answer as the best then?
Answer 10 years ago
Possibly wanted potassium(oxidiser)?
L
10 years ago
Thanks, all of you for your suggestions, I will most likely grind them down to use for next winter's ice and snow.
10 years ago
You could grind them with salt to make lower-sodium table-salt.
L
Answer 10 years ago
Interesting idea. These things are about the size of charcoal briquettes. Do you have any suggestions on how I might grind them?
Answer 10 years ago
Pound them with a stick, in a saucepan? But Mortar & Pestle ideally
This is what I'm referring to (commercial site). 66% Potassium Chloride.
L
Answer 10 years ago
Ugh, I don't know how good that would taste. Potassium chloride tastes pretty bad straight. I guess if you mix it with regular salt and used sparingly in food, it might be okay, but it seems a lot of trouble. If you were going to use them for sidewalks, it shouldn't be too hard to break the chicklets (supposedly that's actually what they're called, at least by the local potash mine) into small chunks suitable for the sidewalk. Toss them in a bag and gently break with a mallet or something, I'd suggest.
Answer 10 years ago
Well I wouldn't do that, Lo-Salt doesn't taste right.
L
10 years ago
It is also a snow-melter!
10 years ago
Return them and get whatever it was you wanted instead.
Answer 10 years ago
I was gonna say that.