Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for April 15, 2021

Don’t. You’ll be asalted.

There are actually several dangers here.

The Sodium (Na) is a highly reactive metal.

Chlorine Gas is also highly (dangerously) reactive.

Because both highly reactive, they may combine explosively.

They combine to form Sodium Chloride (NaCl) – which is common ordinary table salt.

Salt can be used to kill a slug. A slug exposed to salt may die because the salt may “draw the water out” of the slugs cells by osmosis – causing the cells/slug to shrivel up (by plasmolysis) and die.

It’s not a sluggish reaction.

Dave’s rubbing salt in an old wound. (Dave!! you should have made the test tube rack an Escher drawing)

The experiment was a complete success; slugs never had to wear ties ever again.

We had a kitten once that liked to eat slugs. We named him Sluggo.

It’ll both kill ’em and cure ’em.

Oh, the horror!

There are no mistakes in chemistry. Only happy accidents … mostly

A tasty idea!

Is that a pestle in your pocket?

They’d pronounce it: “Nackle”

Salt of the … never mind.