Lithium is dangerous

[okie john]

This sounds like the ultimate shooter's amusement park attraction. How much do you think people would pay to machine-gun barrels of explosive toxic waste on the surface of a frozen lake?


Okie John

[awp_101]

Now THAT’S a detail I’d volunteer for!

[Coyotesfan97]

I remember high school chemistry. Mr. Goldsmith ('Au'Smith) took a small chunk of pure sodium and dropped it in a clear beaker of water. The reaction was violent. Probably would not be permitted in schools today.

Mr Knutson did the same for my high school chemistry class. Mr Knutson liked to play Monty Python and the Holy Grail for classes too. Because science!

[Joe in PNG]

Our teacher demonstrated the Na in water trick. Some folks would take the bottles with some sodium in water and throw them in a lake and then shoot them with a 22.

I watched some old monster movie where the monsters attacked a high school. They came from the sea and the kids remembered that sodium reacted against water and the monsters were full of water (being from the sea), thus they got what looked like big ice cream container (like the ones in the ice cream cone store) full of sodium. They then stuck their hands in the 'sodium' and threw it at the monsters. The monsters then blew up! That's a plan!

Sounds like "The Horror of Party Beach", which also made for a classic MST 3k episode.