[time-nuts] alkali metals and water

Raj vu2zap at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 15:30:36 UTC 2011


I have personally seen the explosion when a chunk of sodium was dropped into water. My senior who was the victim had to have his eyes washed out and such..

At 02-03-2011, you wrote:
>"Revolutionized education," perhaps.  "Improved education," not so much.
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>That video is a well-known hoax. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/jul/22/badscience.uknews)
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>It's only value, for a high school science class, would be to point out NOT to believe something just because you saw it on YouTube.
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>-RL
>---
>Robert Lutwak
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>From: "jimlux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 8:43 AM
>To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
>Subject: [time-nuts] alkali metals and water
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>>You know, elements we love, Rb, Cs...
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCk0lYB_8c0
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>>Totally safe for work.. (my daughters turned me on to this video, they saw it in their 8th grade science class)

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Raj, VU2ZAP
Bangalore, India. 




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