Sodium + water = big explosions!
 

http://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTabl...1.2/index.html
Check out the videos. :shocked:

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Nice and explosive !!! Coool videos !!!

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quick quick...

http://pauling.library.oregonstate.e...stry-front.jpg

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What player are use using too watch it i cant see it :dunce:

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Its Quicktime, google for Quicktime Alternative.

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Pah, Sodium is nothing ....

Use Potassium, or Rubidium, or for a really big bang - Cesium. :D

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caesium is cool. it's also the most electropositive of the elements, which means one of two things:
- don't put it anywhere near fluorine
- it doesn't really like it's 6s electron

francium would be cooler- but it's radioactive and its half life means you wouldn't have long enough to isolate it and use it in fun vids.

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Ah yes Pottasium....our mad scientist teacher did that back in school.
Was very impressive.

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I used to be a school lab technician! So if the teacher had 'annoyed' me (there was only one that did that - and she know no chemistry at all! :Yikes: ) then the class would get slightly bigger bits of sodium provided for their teacher demo that day! :D

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They did them all (Sodium, potassium etc) on Brainiacs - the same small amount of each in a bath. The sodium just went "bang". The cesium blew the bath to pieces !

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Here, download this, it's in AVI format, you should be able to play it. ;)

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Also check out 'How to light a BBQ using liquid oxygen' by George Goble:

http://www.doeblitz.net/ghg/

(nice videos) ;)

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It all brings back memories of my school days ... I was friends with a couple of the A-level Chemistry boys. What fun we used to have. :D

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We used to prat around even in A-level. Class.

I remember someone dropped some alcohol or something liquid/organic on their hand and then lit it with a splint... pmsl. Apparently it didn't hurt...

Firing corks out of flasks with gas-evolving reactions (cool), pratting with lighting things, yeah we've done it all... :)

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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.

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WE don't get to play with it so how your teachers did I don't have a clue.

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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.

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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!

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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: