Get a Chemisty 101/2 book. You must have been in the bone head chemistry class. On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Anonymous wrote:

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I guess those high school students aren't the only ones with no clear idea of the way the world works. While salt water does not ordinarily explode, in this case salt water is the ultimate product -- but massive heat released when acids and bases join and recombine to produce salts (in this case table salt) and water.

Interesting thread. While we're on the topic of chemistry and heat:

Does anyone happen to know how to figure the energy requirements or yields for a reaction? My college chemistry book doesn't say a whole lot about it. In fact it doesn't say enough to actually be useful at all; it gives energies for four or five different bonds in a table and then launches into a really bad explanation of how to calculate this.

If I have to use a table of bond energies is there one available online? Or is there a simpler way to just calculate the bloody things?

I really ought to take more chemistry courses before I get my diploma. Or at the very least audit them.

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