Nerdy Musings

[PatrThom]

Heh. I've seen that guy's sodium party articles before. Obviously, then, what we need is to break open an ampule of powdered cesium to give us more surface area. This also explains why chemists like to do their experiments in round mols of a substance rather than by equal masses.

--Patrick

 

[Soliloquy]

I remember reading somewhere that the explosions in that video were faked.

Yes, they were faked. Here is a link to video of what really happens when alkali metals are exposed to water:
Alkali Metal Bangs from theodoregray.com[/QUOTE]

Now that's just disappointing.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

That's what she said

 

[Iaculus]

Explain to me, then, how my Chemistry teacher managed to wreck our fume cabinet and singe off part of his moustache with some inadvisably-applied caesium. Yeah, he was kind of nuts.

Those guys just weren't trying hard enough.

 

[checkeredhat]

Unfortunately I couldn't find the line about we being God's salt. And that one day God is going to eat us.

HOLY SMURF JASON SEGAL WAS IN THAT?!
I clearly haven't seen that movie in a really long time.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Explain to me, then, how my Chemistry teacher managed to wreck our fume cabinet and singe off part of his moustache with some inadvisably-applied caesium. Yeah, he was kind of nuts.

Those guys just weren't trying hard enough.

Put that explosion in a confined space like a fume cabinet.

Just a little gasoline in the wash once blew the back door off my parents' house. The explosion was only as loud as a slamming door, but blew two doors through their door jambs. It also blew the top 2 inches off of the washer.