Wanna dispose of some sodium? Na.

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By Phil Plait
Feb 22, 2012 11:05 PMNov 20, 2019 4:23 AM

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You might think I'm posting this just because of the awesome title above, but in fact it's for a video that's even better. I know! Here's the scoop: after WWII, the US government found they had some extra sodium no one wanted, so they disposed of it. In a lake. Full of water. And by the way, it was ten tons of pure sodium. So yeah, you wanna see this newsreel footage from the event:

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