Chem Lab adventures [was Re: JetPacks vs. AirCars]

Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:11:38 -0700 (PDT)

Robert J. Bradbury writes:

> I think my grandfather (who was a science teacher) may
> have been a match for you two. He dumped about a
> kilo of old sodium off of a bridge over the Charles
> River in Boston many years ago. The next day the
> papers read "Charles River Boils"....

Of course everybody knows that the best method of disposing sodium is wrapping big chunks of it in toilet paper & flushing it down, preferably in a multi-storey building. Yellowstone fun...