Here's the story, an acquaintance’s drug manufacturer/dealer boyfriend, had just been murdered, yes murdered, really. After the State and Local Police with the help of the FBI had confiscated anything of value, they somehow missed this large chunk of Elemental Sodium in a jar of mineral oil, (used in some process or other that I really didn't want to know about), probably stolen from the local University's chemistry lab, where said boyfriend was a graduate student. She didn't want it around so she gave it to my roommate and me. It sat in the back of our refrigerator for a couple of months. Well it was a long an boring semester and one day while several people, were at my place trying to come up with something interesting to do, someone asked, "Hey what's in the Jar?"...
What can I say, we were young and stupid. We were smart enough to keep the wind at our backs. Illinois Bill wrote: >And even less amusing when the wind pushes the debris from the chunk >(which is now many chunks) back towards the shore of the lake . . . >thus causing the thrower and his band of followers to flee for safety! > >IL Bill > >(Yes, I have seen, and possess a video like this. No, I am not among >the people on shore) > >On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:42 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > >>It depends on how large a block of Na we're talking about. About a >>1/4 >>Kilo was quite amusing skittering across the Ice of a pond towards >>open >>water. Even more amusing, and spectacular, when it hit the water... >> >>Perry Pellechia wrote: >> >> >> >>>This chemist does not want to be anywhere near this experiment....... >>> >>>On 9/6/06, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Found buried in a discussion on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) >>>> >>>>"Hrmm... a larg enough block of Na [sodium] tossed into a lake would >>>>essentially make a large pool of lye. >>>> >>>>Na + H20 = Lye + stuff >>>>Explosion + fish = dead fish >>>>dead fish + lye = lutefisk" >>>> >>>>Sorry, I guess it's the disused wannabe-chemist in me. :-) >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Thanks, >>>>DougF (KG4LMZ) >>>> >>>>-- >>>>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>[email protected] >>>>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. >> >> --Albert Einstein >> >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
