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		bigbillheck on July 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What AT&T and Verizon knew about toxic lead cables... > If not, wouldn't you expect to hear about... I've certainly heard about such: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/a... > lead, being heavier than water, drop out of the groundwater Sodium chloride is over twice as heavy as water, and yet doesn't 'drop out' of it.

anthonyu on July 17, 2023 [–]

A bit of a bad analogy as, in water, the sodium and chloride are not bound together; rather, the ions are separately distributed throughout and wouldn't have the same density that they would have in a dry, crystal, ionically bound form.

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