# Ice and Salt In Water Pipe

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-and-salt-in-water-pipe/796575>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-and-salt-in-water-pipe/796575 "2017-09-17T20:45:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-and-salt-in-water-pipe/796575/1 "2017-09-17T20:45:50Z")

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I put ice and water in the water reservoir in the water pipe I use for smoking… eucalyptus leaves. Knowing that salt helps lower the freezing point of water, if I added salt to the reservoir, would that cool the smoke even further? Or would it just give me salty-tasting smoke?

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**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-and-salt-in-water-pipe/796575/2 "2017-09-17T22:08:31Z")

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I guess if the water is evaporating ot vapor the salt would be left behind

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-and-salt-in-water-pipe/796575/3 "2017-09-17T22:58:59Z")

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> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> I use for smoking… eucalyptus leaves.

Yeah… right.

Closed.