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furshur
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Posted - 01/18/2005 :  13:34:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send furshur a Private Message
What a difference an electron can make!!!



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Ricky
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Posted - 01/18/2005 :  14:59:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf

Yeah we saw some video of a science teacher and his class, they threw a log sized chunk of sodium into a gravel pit pond. It made the sound of a cannon and shot up a few hundred feet in the air when it hit the water, then fell back to the water and repeated the process over and over smaller each time, till it had all reacted.



Any idea where this video is?

I would just want to see this done with potassium.

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Edited by - Ricky on 01/18/2005 15:00:26
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 01/18/2005 :  21:49:01   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
Something similar was done in Sweden, buy a couple of youths.
They got their dirty hands of half a kilo of potassium. They threw it in a sewer in an industrial area, and watched the explosion throw up the sewer grate, which landed some 50 meters from their location.

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Ricky
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Posted - 01/19/2005 :  01:10:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Sounds like a good 4th of July science experiment.

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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 01/19/2005 :  09:49:36   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
They got scared shitless, because they had no clue the explosion would be so violent. The police caught them, and they confessed.

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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 01/19/2005 :  12:27:59   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
I dont think the video was comercial, just something passed around by chem teachers.

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