(December 9, 2016 at 8:04 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The other thing people either don't understand about compounds, or just purposefully forget, is that you can take two harmful elements, combine them, and be left with a relatively unharmful substance.
You'd never eat pure sodium or pure chlorine, but fused together they make Sodium Chloride, which is table salt.
Yes. I once "borrowed" the school lab supply of Sodium. For scientific research it was a blast. Or alot of them.