Throwing a chunk of sodium into a river - GIF

[Altair]

Throwing a chunk of sodium into a river.




Previously:

Sodium reacting to ambient air - GIF
Lunar sodium tail animation - GIF
Sodium plasma - GIF
Crystallization of sodium acetate - GIF

[mwmkravchenko]

Wonder how many fish died for that stunt. And the after effects of the sodium.

Neat to watch, but there's more happening than what is in the video.

[drivermark]

When I was in high school (late 70's) a buddy of mines older brother and a friend of his stole a chunk from one of the science labs and flushed it down the toilet in the snack shack by the football field. I just happen to be about 50ft away when I saw them come running out of the rest room and about 5 seconds later there was this big ol' boom and the door flew open and a bunch of smoke came rolling out. That little incident brought the local cops the FBI and ATF all to our little high school.