Re: State of the Union Address

[Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>]

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.