I need an answer to this

[Pike]

Maybe it wasn't sodium but he dropped a pure reactive substance into a pool and BAM.

To be fair my school had the exact same sodium story, except that it was dropped into a toilet instead of a pool.

[Madame Adequate]

That way, the oil can catch fire, but since it won't mix with water, the water would be ok.

the water would be ok.

What... what exactly are you envisioning fire might do to water to render it "not ok"?

[Yar]

make it too warm

[blackmage_nuke]

You should be fine as long as you wear safety goggles

[Jiro]

Wear overalls too just in case

[Pike]

You should be fine as long as you wear safety goggles

You... you mean... there are people out there who aren't ALWAYS wearing safety goggles?

[NorthernChaosGod]

Maybe it wasn't sodium but he dropped a pure reactive substance into a pool and BAM.

To be fair my school had the exact same sodium story, except that it was dropped into a toilet instead of a pool.

I think if they had built the pool at my school like they promised, we might have had that story.

[Pike]

Maybe it wasn't sodium but he dropped a pure reactive substance into a pool and BAM.

To be fair my school had the exact same sodium story, except that it was dropped into a toilet instead of a pool.

I think if they had built the pool at my school like they promised, we might have had that story.

They should've built it on the roof. And it should've had a leak.

/references

[NorthernChaosGod]

/Hackers

[Pike]

/brofist

[TheGlassesGirl]

I don't know what possessed you to come up with this brilliantly stupid idea. Do it.

[Jiro]

There's a new pool at uni, it's huge, I should do something crazy to it like that chemical bomb trout.

[NorthernChaosGod]

/brofist

[Del Murder]

Have you done this yet? What's taking so long.

[qwertysaur]

This reminds me of the time my chemistry teacher told us the story of another teacher who thought it would be fun to drop pure sodium in the school's swimming pool while his class watched...and then the walls blew up and so did the children. Needless to say he never taught another more day.

Sodium is the second least reactive alkali metal. Did he toss in like 20 pounds? o_O

Seriously at least get some cesium up in there

Why stop at cesium? Get some Francium instead. Just a warning though, good luck actually getting some considering how rare it is.

My high school Chemistry class also started with blowing up sodium. We only used about 2 grams in a beaker in a fume hood. My teacher wanted to make salt with the sodium and some chlorine gas, but couldn't get the chlorine.