Sodium Party

daveirl

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azezil

the first time i seen that in science class i vowed to steal a large chunk n throw it in the river... this guy's my hero lol

daveirl

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lynchie

Originally posted by azezil
the first time i seen that in science class i vowed to steal a large chunk n throw it in the river... this guy's my hero lol

I wanted to do that myself but my mate beat me to it. We had a bottle of Potassium, which is even more reactive than sodium. We threw a big lump of it into the liffey, the amount of blue sparks/flames was unbelievable. :eek:

daveirl

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ozpass

I saw an episode of the Open University (British thang) once about Group 1 metals.

One of the videos they showed was a tiny speck of Caesium being dropped into a glass tank full of water.

It blew out the glass. :eek:

Bf-109

I wonder if you could blow out a whole dam with sufficient amount of a group 1 element (why think small scale)?

daveirl

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SOL

the best thing would be saesium bullets with a thin calcium coating, you shoot somone an th calcium reacts away, then KABOOOOOOOOOOM, or you could blow up water towers n stuff, best idea since mercury bullets,

Ryo Hazuki

Our science teacher threw Lithium in Concentrated acid, quite funny.

Ive often wondered since lithiun has an atomic number of 4 and oyxgen and nitrogen ave 14 and 16 (i think) why doesnt it just float in air? Atomic Number indicatates density right?.

Did anyone ever steal stuff from the science lab at your school?

daveirl

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thedrowner

i know people who have stolen ether.
the most adventurous i ever got was a rubber bung
whatever happened to rubber bungs? when i went into college to do science, they all dissapeared to be replaced by propper caps
*hmmm*

Cake Fiend

I used to nick all sorts of ****e out of our (very insecure) lab. Anything from magnesium ribbon, scalpel blades and wire to electronic kit parts and dangerous chemicals (sodium, test tubes full of conc. HCL, H2SO4)

Luckily I knew enough not to do stupid stuff with them (e.g. keep a tube of acid in my pocket or something).

thedrowner

in college a ocuple of guys i know borrowed a lab coat from the lab and left a pippetteman full of ether in the pocket for the next person who wore the labcoat to find....

D-Generate

What do mercury bullets do, are they explosive or do they just use mercury as a poison

SOL

I made a mixture of sulphut carbon and potasium chlorate once only a litle bit though, but mercury bullets basically splatter on impact but because the mercury is dense (13.8 times water) it will continues through all soft targets (ie. people) and leave an absoulutly massive hole. however due to obwious reasons they are banned

Defenistrator

the best part of the story has to be that he bought 3 and a half pounds of Sodium on ebay!

BioHazRd

hehe - I remeber stealing some lithium (I think) from the lab in school - it was a VERY long time ago. We went down to the canal and fed it to the ducks, mixed in amongst chunks of bread - quack quack Pffftt.......

Looking back on this, it wasn't the cleverest thing to do - but I did laugh lots at the time

Bio

thedrowner

MEAN!
he he

Ryo Hazuki

Theres some people who were in the class on boards so ill ask them to post here if you dont believe me, anyway lithium aint so good for blowing up, only fizzes in water.

We made a water, acid (sulphuric), petrol, lithium bomb. Very Very Funny, very funny.

Not that simple at all

I was under the impression that generally denser things float on less dense things, eg. oil on water, iron floats in mercury, wood and water etc.

Taking it as I see it, Lithium is far less dense than oxygen so I thought it should.
Could it have something to do with the other stuff in air, so if I got pure oxygen maybe...

How infantile

Look you might as well face it, Blowing stuff up is fun. People arent gonna change and not steal potassium etc to throw at ducks. I dissaprove with blowing up live animals animal however.

If you found a dead duck or somthing to blow up, I wouldnt mind.

Oh god this is a Science board not a place for discussing animal detonation.

Anyway I dont think ill ever post here again

daveirl

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DeVore

Our science teacher was pretty cool. I used to bug him constantly
though. One day he decided to show us how reactive Sodium (or Potassium I cant recall) was with water. So he got one of those really big glass basin yokes and filled it full of water to demonstrate.

Now, I was forever blowing **** up in science class.
(We used to play a game whereby me and my buddy would
dare each other to do those micro-equipment experiments
with the least amount of bumping chips....
"I'll do it with 6" "I'll do it with 5" "you're f*ckin nuts, ok do it with 5 then"

***WARNING WARNING WARNING***
Do not play that game it is almost unbelievably stupid and
dangerous. Bumping chips stop rapid expansion of gases (amongst other things).
Rapid expansions of gasses contained in a small containers
are often called BOMBS. Trust me on that one!
***WARNING WARNING WARNING*** )

Anyway, I was begging him to let us do it ourselves rather then
watch him demonstrate it but he wasnt having any of it and told me to sit by the side of the class while all the nerdy lick asses got to sit up the front.

The class is like a lecture theatre kinda, with his desk twice the height of the front desks so we can all see.... tosses a pretty small amount of it in and it goes FÚCKING NUTS in the water so much that front of the glass breaks and water comes flooding out like a dam

Picture the scene, all the fanboy students up the front are leaning forward taking notes, eager to please when water floods over their desks with a chunk of metal spitting off bits and exploding and burning etc... and me laughing my ass off SO loud I nearly bust a gut....

Everytime I see Professor Fink on the Simpsons (you know with "the running and the burning and the monkeys grabbing my glasses") I am reminded of that day.

But please, PLEASE do not blow shít up because you read about it here!

DeV.

D-Generate

This thread might appear on Tonight with Trevor MacDonald if they ever had a story on anarchism

Woden

Screw the ducks get over them and the Na in water big deal its only a reaction and whats the point in stealing ether the most common ones just evaporate, if yours are interested in dangerous stuff, take a look at chloroform-D its trying to kill you.

Ryo Hazuki

ether

Just made me think of Dr. Nick from the simpsons when his cylinder of ether went on fire.

"Imflammable means flammable? What a country...."

Seriously The Lithium-Petrol-Water-Acid-Bomb was real unfortunatly the people who were there do not use boards, it wasnt as dangerous as it sounds, we wore our saftey glasses.

however someone who does use boards was in my that class with the Lithium and the acid and the exploding and the hair on fire.

daveirl

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Dun

We got to experiments once in a blue moon :rolleyes:

Pretty tame, but the only hing that ever happened was once the teacher was showing us how potassium would ignite spontaneously in air. So he took this chunk outta the oil or water (it was in one or the other, sure some Chemistry student can tell me) and carefull cut off a little bit, as he was placing the big bit back in the water/oil, the little bit really started going for it, and like a silly cúnt, he put down the big bit to try and control the small bit. Big mistake. Within five minutes the whole building was full of potassium smoke.

Good job our school was split up into several buildings - would be bad if 2000 students had to evacuate!

Still can't smell a match while lighting it without feeling a bit sick - tis disgusting stuff.

thedrowner

stored in oil i think

Ryo Hazuki

And were about 1/2 km away as to survive

FFS! Ill get him to sign up and tell you about it, he is morally oppossed to BBS's in all forms but will still register.

Next time ill make a video of it.

Jesus its not that that bad,
The pieces just broke up started to burn and flew out of the pot, bits of bright red burning metal went everywhere.

The water was brown afterwards.

how potassium would ignite spontaneously in air

I think thats white-phosporus (very Toxic), not potassium.

I found some red-phosporus and we had a great laugh with it,
Just a small ammount makes massive clouds of smoke. It burns like mad, and when it goes out you can strike it with a coin and sparks go everywhere.

In the end I gave it to a friend and he burned the whole jar at once, filled a housing estate apparently

Matches contain red-p i think

daveirl

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Dun

Originally posted by Ryo Hazuki
I think thats white-phosporus (very Toxic), not potassium.

Bingo! That's it - phosphorus.

Was in 1993 or 1994, so me forgot

Ryo Hazuki

If that's just Sodium + Water your concoction would be unreal!

Well that was a lot of sodium!
We had a pretty small ammount of Li and the liquids were around 20% petrol 20% Battery Acid and 80% Water

It was nowhere near as big as that

sceptre

Originally posted by Ryo Hazuki
around 20% petrol 20% Battery Acid and 80% Water

I'm honestly not doubting you.

However, add up the percentages above, there's a good lad.

daveirl

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Ryo Hazuki

Ohops sorry, make that 20 20 60