Sodium Party

[PoorShot^^;;]

I'd read about, and heard stories about, throwing sodium into water. It's a classic thing chemistry students do in college, and based on the reports I have been able to find on the internet, they are often drunk at the time.

While anecdotal evidence would suggest that many people have thrown sodium into the lakes and streams of the world, they have been reprehensibly lax in documenting the results. I could find no reliable, and I stress the word reliable, reports on what actually happens. What reports I did find were contradictory: As you will see, I now know why.

I decided I should produce a comprehensive online reference on sodium dropping, with documentation on the size and shape of the chunks, how thrown, and most importantly with videos of the resulting explosions. To do this, I held a Sodium Party. People brought chips and soda and we had a cookout.

The first step was the procurement, through eBay, of three and half pounds of solid sodium metal for about a hundred dollars. This is a decent price for a small quantity like this. Small being a relative term: It's used by the ton in industry, but anything more than a few grams is a dangerous quantity if found in your home. Three and a half pounds is enough, for example, to blow your home to bits under the right conditions.

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[MentaL]

[Mario_Party]

ok.. crazy.. we did this in school with like 5 millimeters of it lol

[RuDoLpH]

that sweet my screince teacher blows up garbage cans with it

[skin]

just about to watch it , (starts to think) wonder if u could get a drunk guy to piss on it hehehe lol :chair:

[RageFire]

Awsome, yeah we did that in school, was so pathetic though, teacher made us all stand back with goggles on whilst he put a fucking pea size 1mm bit of sodium in there. However, potassium is the one to look out for, that was cool.

[Ionic & Schizo]

Potassium in water's just cool. Flame on water.

I've seen a video of Cesium and Rubidium thrown in2 water. The glass dish (bout 10cm deep and 30cm wide) litterally exploded!

Sadly, for this reason, Cesium and Rubidium and water experiments arent carried out in schools.

I'm pretty sure mor ppl wud take up kemystery if they did see it. (Then drop it cos it's so fukin hard! (& boring, but that's cos of one of the teachers I have for the subject.))