David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
"Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
----- Original Message -----
From: Moontanman-in-aol.com
Date: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:35 pm
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Jedi Fishin'
> In a message dated 5/23/05 3:09:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> damarkley-in-earthlink.net writes:
>
>
> > Sodium metal is pretty powrful too when tossed into a small pond
> as I found
> > out as a teen. Of course that was my inspiration to become a
> chemist too!
> >
> >
>
> Doesn't that give off hydrogen? My grandfather told me about
> putting lime in
> a jug with a tiny hole and weighting it down in the water. it
> would take a few
> minutes but it would give a very nice explosion that killed or
> injured fish
> that could be picked up by holding seine across the river-in-the
> top of the
> riffles after the deep hole you blew up. I always thought it was
> sad because it
> killed all the small fish as well as the eating size ones.
>
> Moon
>
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