Fun with inorganic chemistry.

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We did toss a small chunk of sodium metal into water in my high school second year chemistry class at one point--I think it might have been a day when we had a substitute teacher--but unfortunately we had no cesium in the back room.

More videos along these lines available at the Open University site: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=294420

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Sodium is fun stuff. In college chem lab, we took little bits of it, and wrapped foil around it to make boats, and then poked a hole in the back end, and dropped them in water and had races. In high school chem lab, they were less subtle, and just let us blow up a metal trash can with it.