Sugar will melt ice but is not as effective as salt because salt breaks down into sodium and chloride ions so when one molecule of salt dissolves into the ice, it will add two components to the solution which provide more interference in preventing the water molecules from freezing.

Which best describes the present-day universe? opaque, expanding very slowly, stars produce heavy elements transparent, expanding at an accelerated rate, stars produce heavy elements opaque, expanding at an accelerated rate, stars produce only hydrogen and helium transparent, expanding very slowly, stars produce only hydrogen and helium