{"id":10701,"date":"2007-11-01T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/11\/01\/10701.html"},"modified":"2007-11-01T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T18:57:56","slug":"explosive-water-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/11\/01\/explosive-water-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosive water tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two videos showing what happens when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alkali_metal\">alkali metals<\/a> encounter water:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=3825610222960975525\">Ten tons of sodium, meet frozen lake<\/a> (1947).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eCk0lYB_8c0\">Rubidium and cesium, meet bathtubs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Thanks to Charles D and BDan for the links.)<\/p>\n<p>Added later:<\/p>\n<p>J7y points out that, unfortunately and disappointingly, the Brainiac video (the second one I linked to above) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2006\/jul\/15\/badscience.uknews\">was faked<\/a>.  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2006\/jul\/22\/badscience.uknews\">followup article<\/a> for confirmation.) He notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theodoregray.com\/PeriodicTable\/AlkaliBangs\/index.html\">Alkali Metal Bangs<\/a> provides some legitimate info about this kind of thing, plus some non-faked videos.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two videos showing what happens when alkali metals encounter water: Ten tons of sodium, meet frozen lake (1947). Rubidium and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}