• Question: can salt make a slug explode?

    Asked by science4lyf to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 28 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Some salts can be very explosive when coming into contact with water. Normal table salt just makes them shrivel up though.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      The salt seems to make the slug uncomfortable, so it tries to wash it off by excreting slime. Then it gets dehydrated and dies. It’s a really inhumane way to kill them, even if they do eat my tomatoes!

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