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Old 24-05-2005, 07:20   #19
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!

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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!
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
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