OOh, you are right. I sit corrected. It is indeed Hydrochloric acid. My chemistry professor would be so disappointed. The Muriatic acid available at HD is low concentration Hydrochloric acid. That re
And never light magnesium from the Bunson burner in chemistry class or the teacher will kick you out of class real quick. ;) -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ
Hey! Metallic sodium and water was the ONLY experiment that worked in my entire year of highschool chemistry. And that only worked because a couple of us enveigled the teacher out into the hall whil
derf wrote: "And don't throw a chunk of Sodium into a toilet..." The university chemistry department had been cited several times by Cal-OSHA after accidents had injured and disfigured students. So,
My father used to work at a chemical plant. An employee stole a small lump of Sodium to show his family how it reacted with water. He threw the piece into the toilet and it basically blew the toilet
Buster, My HS chem prof, Dr. Bloch taught me that table salt is sodium chloride, not sodium, complete with stable ionic bond. When I was in college, our "lab" experiments were done in a linear accele
Or bury it where in a spot that gets soaked. Looks like the 4th of July in an open field :) I didn't bury it but I saw the show. -- Frank Clarici Toms River, NJ