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Slugs'n'Snails - wired?
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19-06-2006, 11:41 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
John McMillan
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Slugs'n'Snails - wired?
In article ,
(Steve Harris) wrote:
In article ,
ks (Mike)
wrote:
Cathodic Protection?
Potential between dis-similar metals
Copper to Ground?
The most convincing (but rare) explanation is that S'n'S don't like
getting even very dilute copper salts on their feet.
Thats my preferred explanation too. I wouldn't have thought it would
be too difficult to rig an experiment where snails were asked to walk
across stainless steel wires with about half a volt between them or
across blotting paper soaked in 0.1% copper sulphate solution
and then rate the experiences on a scale of 1 to 10.
You'd need an animal experimentation licence and an ethics committee
etc etc.
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