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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2650752, member: 71234&quot;]<i>along with sodium, a metal so reactive that it explodes in contact with water.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Minor quibble, it is the hydrogen evolved in the reaction with water&nbsp; that explodes when mixed with the oxygen in the air and is ignited by the sodium&#039;s violently exothermic reaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a young lad, I found it great fun to walk down a street dropping (unobtrusively) a small pieceof metalic sodium down street drains as I passed. Because it took some time for the hydrogen to build up to an explosive mixture and for the heat of reaction to ignte it, you could be a hundred yards away before the bang. As far as I know it never did any more damage than to wake people up.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had to make our own amusements in those days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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