# How Does Pouring Salt on an Ice Cube Affect the Skin?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-pouring-salt-on-an-ice-cube-affect-the-skin/176116 "2003-05-18T21:56:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-pouring-salt-on-an-ice-cube-affect-the-skin/176116/21 "2003-05-19T07:30:26Z")

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So the moral of the story is not to let people play stupid tricks on your body without demonstrating it on themselves first; I mention this because a friend of mine was very badly burned on the back of the hand once; someone in a pub offered him a £20 note, the condition attached was that he would have to hold the note against the back of his hand and let the trickster burn through it with a cigarette.  
Trouble is that the skin absorbs the heat straight through the paper, which consequently never gets hot enough to burn through.

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**Author:** ![Paradigm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Paradigm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paradigm)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-pouring-salt-on-an-ice-cube-affect-the-skin/176116/22 "2003-05-19T12:03:09Z")

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Think energy of fusion 🙂

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