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From: steve@monu6.cc.monash.oz (Steve Balogh)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Mysterious exploding fish
Message-ID: <1990May24.085607.5021@monu6.cc.monash.oz>
Date: 24 May 90 08:56:07 GMT
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In article <1990May21.022720.4768@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> forbes@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jeff Forbes) writes:
>commercially and it is not very toxic. Sodium metal reacts violently
>with water and is stored under kerosene or mineral oil.

Which kind of makes it hard for it to get TO THE FISH. Fish tend to live in
water. Unless, of course, the fish saw this this lump of sodium metal dropping
towards it from above the water, lept out of the water, and then swallowed the
sodium. (which would probably burn the fish's guts out at that very moment)

Steve



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