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MilkmanDansays...Cool -- I vividly remember my High School Chemistry class demonstration on this, with a pea-sized bit zipping around the surface of the water.
I want to see a big brick of it (1kg or so) in a similarly breakable but enclosing container and held 10m or so underwater in a lake (or something) by a wire mesh cage. Would chopping it up into smaller pieces to maximize the surface area increase the effect? Or would the violence of the reaction make cavitation / hydrogen bubbles that push the water out of way and make the reaction happen in multiple phases as the water gets pushed away and returns?
oritteroposays...I can, almost, oblige... watch this *related=http://videosift.com/video/WWII-Newsreel-of-Exploding-Sodium video. The first barrel is close to what you're after.
Cool -- I vividly remember my High School Chemistry class demonstration on this, with a pea-sized bit zipping around the surface of the water.
I want to see a big brick of it (1kg or so) in a similarly breakable but enclosing container and held 10m or so underwater in a lake (or something) by a wire mesh cage. Would chopping it up into smaller pieces to maximize the surface area increase the effect? Or would the violence of the reaction make cavitation / hydrogen bubbles that push the water out of way and make the reaction happen in multiple phases as the water gets pushed away and returns?
siftbotsays...WWII Newsreel of Exploding Sodium has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.
MilkmanDansays...Awesome! Thanks for the link, I had missed that one.
About the only way to improve on that would be if Mythbusters or somebody did a large amount sliced thin to maximize surface area, built a cage sturdy enough to keep it submerged, and then filmed it (underwater) in ultra high-speed...
I can, almost, oblige... watch this *related=http://videosift.com/video/WWII-Newsreel-of-Exploding-Sodium video. The first barrel is close to what you're after.
siftbotsays...Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
oritteroposays...*discard
siftbotsays...Discarding this post - discard requested by original submitter oritteropo.
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