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do not get me stared on spanish. i HATE my spanish teacher. he talks weird, looks weird, and acts like we are kindergarteners.
 
Back in the day one of my teachers was showing how "magnesium sulfate or phosperous something or other", I have no idea what it was now, would react with water. So she set up a big see through shield, got all suited up and dropped some into the water and blew a hole through the tile ceiling and caught it on fire. A bit of an over dose. I thought it was funny.

Any of you chem heads know what I'm talking about. It's like some kind of metal or something that blows up if it gets moist. It reacts by burning really bright white? - N
 
Nereus7 said:
Back in the day one of my teachers was showing how "magnesium sulfate or phosperous something or other", I have no idea what it was now, would react with water. So she set up a big see through shield, got all suited up and dropped some into the water and blew a hole through the tile ceiling and caught it on fire. A bit of an over dose. I thought it was funny.

Any of you chem heads know what I'm talking about. It's like some kind of metal or something that blows up if it gets moist. It reacts by burning really bright white? - N
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Pretty much anything in the first column of the periodic table will do that to some degree. The hire up, the less of a reaction. The further you go down, the more fun it gets :) We used potassium in middle school. I was the last class of the day, and the teacher had accidentally caused a small explosion earlier in the day. So he was scared to do too much. In fact, so scared that we barely got a sizzle, and we were supposed to get a flame.

I want to see what Francium would do when put in water.

My prediction any girl in the area :eek3:Person who put it in water :FIREdevil: then :thud:

Me
:jaw:

Then everyone :thud:
 
Nereus7 said:
Back in the day one of my teachers was showing how "magnesium sulfate or phosperous something or other", I have no idea what it was now, would react with water. So she set up a big see through shield, got all suited up and dropped some into the water and blew a hole through the tile ceiling and caught it on fire. A bit of an over dose. I thought it was funny.

Any of you chem heads know what I'm talking about. It's like some kind of metal or something that blows up if it gets moist. It reacts by burning really bright white? - N
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sounds like sodium metal, which is the easiest to get ahold of, the further down you go in the 1st column the more reactive, stuff like francium has to be vacuum sealed in glass because it is so reactive to polar compounds like water. sodium metal is often kept in jars with mineral oil to prevent reaction. but any of those metals are very reactive, sodium, potassium francium etc, and more reactive the further down you go
 
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