From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1998-01-28 06:27:51 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:27:51 +0800
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:27:51 +0800
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Subject: Re: State of the Union Address
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Rabid Wombat wrote:
>
> > > > [1] Grab a totally random sample of 100 high school students. Haul the
> > > > students out one at a time and ask them the following questions:
> > > [snip]
> > > > 11) Michelle mixes one gram of HCl and one half gram of NaOH. Under normal
> > > > circumstances, what is produced and in what quantities?
> > > >
> > >
> > > The correct answer is an explosion and a big mess. One student in my high
> > > school chemistry class learned this the hard way. :)
> > >
> > Um, salt water explodes?
>
> >From my high-school chemistry, neutralization makes slatwater and a lot of
> heat.... (Or that's what the teacher claimed)... Without a way to dump
> the pressure generated this way, yes you could have an explosion...
>
Time to go back to high school. It's just a molocule swap.
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