• Question: what will happen if you mix chlorine gas and a sperm

    Asked by Philip to Callum, Gina, Katie, Michelle, Sam on 9 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Michelle Linterman

      Michelle Linterman answered on 9 Nov 2012:


      Dead sperm. In any gas, a lone sperm would dry out and die. Normally sperm is kept nice and happy (if a single cell can be happy) by being surrounded in a special fluid made by a specific gland, the seminal vesicle, in the male body (near the bladder and the prostate).

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