Cesium wooooo!

I'm pretty sure I saw this in middle school. I was disappointed that they didn't go on to Francium. Unfortunately it has a half-life of 22 minutes.

there are six alkalines, lithium, sodium, potassium, libidium, cesium,
and hash, here let me slice off a chunk

hells yeah! I've seen that. Its more or less the only cool thing I've ever seen in school, the memory has stayed with me. In fact I think I remember my friends older brother *telling* describing it to me. When you go into 3rd year chemistry you get to see this!

I love, love, love everything about this. Especially the way he says "at all".

I hate the alkali metals. Probably not as much as water but pretty damn much for a regular guy.

This makes me giggle with glee.

This is great.

Cool.

Ah, like a refreshing antidote for those El Enin cretins. I really hope Potholer takes a slam at those guys.

Also, fuck yeah cesium!

Scienceplosions!

Dumb science question: are the metals reacting to the air or to the humidity in the air?

SPOILER BELOW:




Cesium wins.

This time, we put a safety screen between us and the reaction.

The guy pouring it is on his own.

My otes:

Reaction of Cesium with water produces impressed whistle

Progression of reaction intensity is non-arithmetic

Hypothesis: Reaction of Francium with water would produce impressed whistle in excess of 120 decibels