Sodium + water = big explosions!
22-05-2005, 22:55
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Sodium + water = big explosions!
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22-05-2005, 23:02
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
Nice and explosive !!! Coool videos !!!
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23-05-2005, 00:01
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
quick quick...
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23-05-2005, 00:15
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
What player are use using too watch it i cant see it 
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23-05-2005, 00:38
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
Its Quicktime, google for Quicktime Alternative.
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23-05-2005, 00:39
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
Pah, Sodium is nothing ....
Use Potassium, or Rubidium, or for a really big bang - Cesium. 
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23-05-2005, 00:55
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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Pah, Sodium is nothing ....
Use Potassium, or Rubidium, or for a really big bang - Cesium. |
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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23-05-2005, 13:56
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Ah yes Pottasium....our mad scientist teacher did that back in school.
Was very impressive.
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23-05-2005, 14:01
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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!  ) then the class would get slightly bigger bits of sodium provided for their teacher demo that day!
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23-05-2005, 14:13
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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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23-05-2005, 14:22
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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What player are use using too watch it i cant see it |
Here, download this, it's in AVI format, you should be able to play it. 
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23-05-2005, 14:24
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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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23-05-2005, 14:27
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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.
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23-05-2005, 14:58
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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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. |
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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23-05-2005, 17:31
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Re: Sodium + water = big explosions!
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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