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[Whoozyerdaddy]

Boom 😀

 

[imported_LoKe]

Would airports allow you to take a metal like this on a plane? I mean, if they didn't know what it was... :shocked:

 

[lyssword]

thats one the guys from TopGear show 😛 But Bill Nye is > him, WA state represent 😛

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Two grams of Cs blew up a bathtub. Two grams = .07 ounces. :Q

 

[dighn]

holy shlt! :Q

 

[Powermoloch]

Oh I do remember the fun days where my teacher got a slice of Sodium metal + water = boom !!!!

 

[bluewall21]

Well, that was a pretty good experiment. 🙂

 

[LordMorpheus]

I saw a vid once where a guy threw one mol of sodium into a lake - it broke in two and the peices flew up on the first impact, and so on and so forth - it was crazy.

Then he threw the same amount of pottasium in the lake and it just detonated, with the like flakes of dust coming down creating little pops on the surface. I want to do that some day.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Blowing sh!t up is teh cool.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Oh I do remember the fun days where my teacher got a slice of Sodium metal + water = boom !!!!

LOL, for that portion of lab, the TA cut the sodium pieces a wee bit too big...halfway through class, there's this huge BANG!, and everyone's bunsen burner goes from a nice blue flame to yellow tinged.

I also managed to fill the entire classroom with thick white smoke once, and performed some impromptu floor cleaning with 14M HCl. Unfortunately, the thermite reaction doesn't really work at 9000 feet...

 

[Fenixgoon]

damn.. didn't think cesium was that reactive (now, where to get my hands on some:evil:

 

[TheoPetro]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Oh I do remember the fun days where my teacher got a slice of Sodium metal + water = boom !!!!

LOL, for that portion of lab, the TA cut the sodium pieces a wee bit too big...halfway through class, there's this huge BANG!, and everyone's bunsen burner goes from a nice blue flame to yellow tinged.

I also managed to fill the entire classroom with thick white smoke once, and performed some impromptu floor cleaning with 14M HCl. Unfortunately, the thermite reaction doesn't really work at 9000 feet...

they let you play w/ 14M HCL ? i think the highest we were allowed to use was 9

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

what's the reaction there?

Cs+H2O->CsO _H2?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
what's the reaction there?

Cs+H2O->CsO _H2?

Yer over thinking it. Cs + H2O = BOOM! 😀

On a side note... The boom came from .07 oz of Cs. You could get a quarter oz through security at the airport no problem. Flush 1/4 Oz at 35k ft.... Scary.

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
what's the reaction there?

Cs+H2O->CsO _H2?

I think it's Cs + H2O -> CsOH + H2

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Oh I do remember the fun days where my teacher got a slice of Sodium metal + water = boom !!!!

LOL, for that portion of lab, the TA cut the sodium pieces a wee bit too big...halfway through class, there's this huge BANG!, and everyone's bunsen burner goes from a nice blue flame to yellow tinged.

I also managed to fill the entire classroom with thick white smoke once, and performed some impromptu floor cleaning with 14M HCl. Unfortunately, the thermite reaction doesn't really work at 9000 feet...

they let you play w/ 14M HCL ? i think the highest we were allowed to use was 9

A 37% solution (which is about 12N or 12M) is the highest available from most commercial vendors.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: TheoPetro

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Oh I do remember the fun days where my teacher got a slice of Sodium metal + water = boom !!!!

LOL, for that portion of lab, the TA cut the sodium pieces a wee bit too big...halfway through class, there's this huge BANG!, and everyone's bunsen burner goes from a nice blue flame to yellow tinged.

I also managed to fill the entire classroom with thick white smoke once, and performed some impromptu floor cleaning with 14M HCl. Unfortunately, the thermite reaction doesn't really work at 9000 feet...

they let you play w/ 14M HCL ? i think the highest we were allowed to use was 9

A 37% solution (which is about 12N or 12M) is the highest available from most commercial vendors.

It might have been 12, that was a long time ago in a different country...but I was the guy who mixed up the solutions for class, so I had access to the pure stuff. There was a crack in the graduated cylinder, which was hidden by the plastic base. And the rest is history.

 

[TheoPetro]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: TheoPetro

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Powermoloch
Oh I do remember the fun days where my teacher got a slice of Sodium metal + water = boom !!!!

LOL, for that portion of lab, the TA cut the sodium pieces a wee bit too big...halfway through class, there's this huge BANG!, and everyone's bunsen burner goes from a nice blue flame to yellow tinged.

I also managed to fill the entire classroom with thick white smoke once, and performed some impromptu floor cleaning with 14M HCl. Unfortunately, the thermite reaction doesn't really work at 9000 feet...

they let you play w/ 14M HCL ? i think the highest we were allowed to use was 9

A 37% solution (which is about 12N or 12M) is the highest available from most commercial vendors.

It might have been 12, that was a long time ago in a different country...but I was the guy who mixed up the solutions for class, so I had access to the pure stuff. There was a crack in the graduated cylinder, which was hidden by the plastic base. And the rest is history.

is this how you lost your feet?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro

Originally posted by: jagec

It might have been 12, that was a long time ago in a different country...but I was the guy who mixed up the solutions for class, so I had access to the pure stuff. There was a crack in the graduated cylinder, which was hidden by the plastic base. And the rest is history.

is this how you lost your feet?

Yes, and I had to get these replacements made out of cold, unfeeling metal...the rest of my life has been a quest to find some technique, some formula, to give me my feet back🙁

 

[TheoPetro]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: TheoPetro

Originally posted by: jagec

It might have been 12, that was a long time ago in a different country...but I was the guy who mixed up the solutions for class, so I had access to the pure stuff. There was a crack in the graduated cylinder, which was hidden by the plastic base. And the rest is history.

is this how you lost your feet?

Yes, and I had to get these replacements made out of cold, unfeeling metal...the rest of my life has been a quest to find some technique, some formula, to give me my feet back🙁

you could try making a nice powder of K, mixing it w/ water and using it to propel yourself along. kinda like a segway but w/ explosions.

 

[Babbles]

It's fun, but it doesn't pay well and the job market sort of blows. But, it is fun and interesting!

<-- analytical chemist/research scientist/don't-know-how-to-explain-what-I-do