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Originally Posted by ferretchucker
Other ones are dropping Caesium into water. If I got Caesium, I'd probably try it out (if you didn't know, Caesium is highly reactive and melts, ignites and explodes in water).
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I did that at school way back when with sodium (I think it was) which is in the same periodic group as caesium and so reacts in the same way. The biggest difference is that the reaction isnt as powerful, hence the teacher allowing us to do it. Caesium is highly explosive when it contacts water, wouldnt try that stuff myself. I did try an experiment by chucking a small lump of sodium in the sink to see what happened, one of my classmates heard the fizzing and bent over the sink to see when it exploded. We both had tiny singe marks all over our faces and had a serious case of tinnitus for a few hours! Great times! The teacher wasnt impressed though.