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Originally Posted by Semprini  Let me know when you get the Caesium. |
Caesium, pound for pound, apparently, isn't as much fun as sodium when you throw it into water. Even though it's much more reactive you need an impossible-to-obtain amount of it to get a better explosion than sodium simply because the sodium is a lower atomic weight, so will contain more atoms, and will liberate more hydrogen (which is where the explosion's actually coming from).
"Brainiac", hugely disappointingly, found this out. So, rather than explain the real science, they
faked their demonstration by using explosives.
