An ice storm is coming. Your car’s radiator has no antifreeze in it; all stores are closed, and you’ve got to use whatever you have around the house to keep the water from freezing in the car’s engine and splitting the engine block.
Rule one: What you add has to dissolve in water.
Rule two: If you add a solid or liquid that dissolves in water, it doesn’t matter what it is, just the amount.
Rule three: Just like antifreeze, your goal is to replace about ½ of the water with a solid or liquid that is miscible with water.
Antifreeze substitutes
Examples 1: Sugar, salt, baking soda, shampoo, laundry detergent, pancake syrup.
Examples 2: Rubbing alcohol, brake fluid
The items on the left is what you had. So you mixed all of these into a gallon of water and poured it into your radiator.