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- From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
- Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:44:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.001435.9345@samba.oit.unc.edu> Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
- >Sodium dumped in water blows up real good, true. But in high-school
- >chemistry class we were shown a movie of chunks of each element in the
- >same column of the periodic table as sodium being tossed into a basin.
- >By the time they got to cesium it was time to call in the Richter scale.
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- to me, "each element" implies that they did *all* of them.
- How'd they store the Francium, did it show?
- A teaspoon of that stuff would probably invite disaster.
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- I always wanted to figure out how to get some dime-sized chunks of sodium
- coated in something solid and water-soluable, like maybe sugar...
- toss 'em and wait a bit...
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- Bob "or did you go to HS long enough ago that it was Virginium?" O'Bob
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