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So by the phase diagram I understand that with salt concentration of >23.3% solids will begin to form at increasing temperatures but the solids are actually salt crystals not ice. Makes sense. I'm sure this is what I was thinking of but it would seem that heating the high salt concentrations such as with the brine pipelines would actually make the slolution less fluid not more.

There is actually a curve where the freezing point rises above 0 C then drops again. Don't know what the curve is just know that it is. There is a facility in my area that pumps brine from the oil fields then extracts bromine from the brine. The brine is heated in order to keep it fluid enough to pump long distances.

Certain concentrations of Brine become solid at temperatures above 32 deg F. Is there a way to know the exact ratio of water to salt?