Thursday, December 30, 2010

High Bond Energies of Salts are Used as an Argument by Some Scientists to Support Plans to Bury Toxic Waste in Salt Domes


Scientists believe salt domes would be a good place to store toxic wastes because they're stable enough to not let the waste come out and contaminate human resources. Also, salt isn't a very reactive compound so it would take a long time for toxic waste to react with salt.


 Work Cited:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem99/chem99023.htm

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