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...
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