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Alkali Metals in Water Explode
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Watch to the end for the best (Cesium!)! A wonderful representation of the alkali metals and their accurate reactivity with water. unlike brainiac, who did infact use explosives in their episode for rubidium and cesium. Very worth a watch.
All credit for this video goes to openlearn.open.ac.uk. Link here:
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=294420
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Thank you for this video.
Ps. You will not get to see Francium in water!
All credit for this video goes to openlearn.open.ac.uk. Link here:
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=294420
Made available by Creative commons attribution.
Thank you for this video.
Ps. You will not get to see Francium in water!
Aug 21, 2009 3:47 PM
Re: Alkali Metals in Water Explode
Of course francium is so unstable that you can't get a solid sample of it to last very long. As I remember the papers that were used to document its creation are still radioactive.
By: cheezsteak
Re: Alkali Metals in Water Explode
Why they don't have Francium:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyFLvSg6ZDw
Is this guy a character or what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyFLvSg6ZDw
Is this guy a character or what?
Re: Alkali Metals in Water Explode
thanks for the bonus video there, that was interesting.
By: hypersapien
Re: Alkali Metals in Water Explode
I remember this video from my sophmore chemistry class.
By: poonhound
Re: Alkali Metals in Water Explode
Thanks for the mention. You can find the video on one of the Open University's YouTube channels, oulearn, here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZY6d6jrq-0
By: OpenLearn
Re: Alkali Metals in Water Explode
This video is not completely accurate. Please visit http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/AlkaliBangs/index.html to see how these metals really react.
By: martiniduck
