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nffc 23-05-2005 19:27
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WE don't get to play with it so how your teachers did I don't have a clue.

ntl customer 24-05-2005 00:32
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Originally Posted by simbr
We were showed a video in school going down the periodic table. Caesium blew up the container, we never got to see Francium. In school I think we only had sodium and potassium (aka metal cheese), and only the teacher got to play with it.
Ah, yes did this video also have a really cheesy periodic table song on it?

I seem to remember watching this video as well where they chucked in some Caesium and the glass container was blown to pieces.

ScaredWebWarrior 24-05-2005 08:14
Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
 
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Originally Posted by Richard M
Quite interesting, if only to note the guy clearly knows very little chemistry.
I've had a bit of a play with Potassium (MORE reactive than Sodium!) and knew about the 'jumping' long before I ever got anything near 100+g of the stuff! (1g is more than enough to learn just how violently reactive the alkaline metals are!)

So anyone dumb enough to throw 50g into a bucket of water is possibly up for nomination for a Darwin Award!

nffc 24-05-2005 08:20
Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
 
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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
Quite interesting, if only to note the guy clearly knows very little chemistry.
I've had a bit of a play with Potassium (MORE reactive than Sodium!) and knew about the 'jumping' long before I ever got anything near 100+g of the stuff! (1g is more than enough to learn just how violently reactive the alkaline metals are!)

So anyone dumb enough to throw 50g into a bucket of water is possibly up for nomination for a Darwin Award!
Yeah but come on, who is going to get any fun off playing with 1 g? Anyone above like 13 is likely to realise how reactive they are.

50 g is small fry... if I had the chance, I'd look and see what happened with about twice that, probably into the Trent from one of teh bridges :LOL:


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