See title. I may not know what I'm talking about, but isn't this stuff denser than water? I know that the chunks of sodium they had at my highschool were kept submerged in mineral oil to prevent them from touching water. It wouldn't make much sense to do so if any water in the oil would form an impossible to remove layer on the bottom of the jar.
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See title. I may not know what I'm talking about, but isn't this stuff denser than water? I know that the chunks of sodium they had at my highschool were kept submerged in mineral oil to prevent them from touching water. It wouldn't make much sense to do so if any water in the oil would form an impossible to remove layer on the bottom of the jar.