Can ice melt go bad?

A what?

My icemelt isn’t melting the ice. I just wondered how it could have been rendered useless. It’s just two simple chemicals, both of them are elements, magnesium and chloride

Yes. Put it in the corner for 20 minutes for going bad.

It’s been in the corner of the deck for 2 years!

No. But you might have to take a hammer to it to get it back into a useful consistency.

I think the water has run over a couple of times with the salt going out with the rain. If you have 25 gallons of rain water run through the the five gallon joint compound cracked top; almost all the ice melt is gone.

Ice melt doesn’t go bad, it IS bad. It is bad for plants and grass and bad for the creeks it runs off in.

@Tropical_Willie it wasn’t even a 4th full and under a roof so none was flowing away. And the lid broke fairly recently, like within the last 2 months.

It didn’t clump @kritiper. There was still water in it.

@zenvelo, what does it do?

@Dutchess_lll You’re not supposed to let the water get in it, silly…

It was unintentionally. The lid finally became compromised.

Captain, we’ve been compromised. We must take action.
fascinating

@zenvelo why are those elements bad?