you’re not throwing table salt out on ice buddy.
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When sodium reacts with water, it'll create hydrogen gas and sodium hydroxide. The gas will burn hence the explosion while the lye will end up corroding the road and contaminating the soil. So, it's a bad idea.
Considering OP's "KERPLOOIE SNOW" I'm pretty sure they're aware of that and that was the joke.
Isn't it magnesium chloride? More ions = better melting.
Please do not put ice salt on your food in a pinch
I once ate a dime sized piece of ice salt 😳
Did you die?
Probably not
He didn't reply so I assume so
I survived, it was over 10 years ago 🤣
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Sounds exciting!
I wonder what you could mix it with for some interesting effect.
Mix powdered sodium with (?, would calcium chloride still work and be stable?) and turn it into granules, cast that onto snow and ice, and have it glitter or spark as it melts the snow.
I didn’t say safe. I just said interesting.
That last sentence is the important one.
You probably could, but that sounds like a nightmare mixture that could go off with atmospheric moisture. Though I do not have enough chemistry training to say for certain.
You are probably right that it would be interesting.
I can't remember if it was the sodium or the elemental aluminum that my chemistry teacher had literally blow a hole in the ceiling because he used too large of a chunk when showing the reaction. I just remember he pulled it out of the oil, put it on a dish and that fucker exploded hella loud and knocked out the drop down tile it blew through.
Well, that could be a number of alkali metals.
As far as I'm aware aluminium doesn't have that sort of reactivity.
I would be very nervous if it did... I'm surrounded by aluminum at the moment lol
Flying would be interesting.
The ice would melt, if that is your goal.
This seems pretty volatile
(Also I'm responding this while listening to "She Blinded Me With Science)
Jamie want big boom!
Who needs eyebrows?
That’s only if you don't throw it far enough.
Certainly not this guy!
Okay. so there's two of us who thought of Mythbusters upon seeing this.
Oh, he lost his eyebrows during the show.
Multiple times. But no, I mean, when I saw the OP, all I could think of was "Jamie wants big boom."
When in doubt... C4.
Exactly!