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Offline Alberto_Kravina

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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2006, 03:22:07 PM »
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Can't remember if they named amount of metals used - something like grams? 1 gram of Cs is able to produce 84 mL of H2 (at STP). Not much.
As far as I remember they used 2 g of Rubidium
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2006, 03:38:14 PM »
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Can't remember if they named amount of metals used - something like grams? 1 gram of Cs is able to produce 84 mL of H2 (at STP). Not much.
As far as I remember they used 2 g of Rubidium

those really were cesium and rubidium cuz i've seen two other videos in clear glass containers where they did the same thing. it may have been more than 2 grams tho
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2006, 04:51:03 PM »
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1g about £240
5g about £350
10g about £540
I thought it was more expensive :P

Thats actually a rip off website that I got those prices off!
A better one sells caesium for:
0.05g- 22 Euros
1g- 55 Euros
5g- 107 Euros
10g- 187 Euros
30g- 307 Euros
I'm surprised I found caesium this cheap!
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2006, 06:48:28 PM »
Quote from: will17 on May 16, 2006, 04:51:03 PM
Quote from: Alberto_Kravina on May 14, 2006, 12:51:19 PM
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1g about £240
5g about £350
10g about £540
I thought it was more expensive :P

Thats actually a rip off website that I got those prices off!
A better one sells caesium for:
0.05g- 22 Euros
1g- 55 Euros
5g- 107 Euros
10g- 187 Euros
30g- 307 Euros
I'm surprised I found caesium this cheap!

are you serious?!?! that's almost cheaper than dirt lol makes me wanna buy some but i don't have very much money
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2006, 10:30:35 PM »
I picked up 5g of Rb and Cs for about $150 each.  The catch was, I had to drive from Austin to New England to pick them up.
(That distance is around 0.5 billion cm, round trip.)
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2006, 10:34:00 PM »
Quote from: Mark Kness on May 16, 2006, 10:30:35 PM
I picked up 5g of Rb and Cs for about $150 each.  The catch was, I had to drive from Austin to New England to pick them up.
(That distance is around 0.5 billion cm, round trip.)

what would you use 5g of Rb and Cs for other than to blow up a bathtub full of water?
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2006, 11:33:28 PM »
Quote from: mrdeadman on May 16, 2006, 10:34:00 PM
Quote from: Mark Kness on May 16, 2006, 10:30:35 PM
I picked up 5g of Rb and Cs for about $150 each.  The catch was, I had to drive from Austin to New England to pick them up.
(That distance is around 0.5 billion cm, round trip.)

what would you use 5g of Rb and Cs for other than to blow up a bathtub full of water?

nothing, that's all i would use it for
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #22 on: May 17, 2006, 07:08:31 AM »
I have to admit, thats probably what i'd do with it myself.  What else could you possibly do with it anyway?
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #23 on: May 17, 2006, 03:46:40 PM »
Melting Cesium in the palm of your hand.

Other than that all I can think of is throwing it into a lake at night and scaring everyone. ::)
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #24 on: May 17, 2006, 03:48:29 PM »
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Melting Cesium in the palm of your hand.
You could make Caesium react with fluorine....that would make a MEGA KABOOM!! ;)
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #25 on: May 17, 2006, 06:15:54 PM »
Quote from: constant thinker on May 17, 2006, 03:46:40 PM
Melting Cesium in the palm of your hand.

Other than that all I can think of is throwing it into a lake at night and scaring everyone. ::)

you wouldn't wanna expose it to the bare palm of your hand i don't think  :)
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2006, 06:46:05 PM »
any other use of cesium would be a waste, the only good and logical thing to do with it would to be throwing it in a lake :P
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2006, 07:23:34 PM »
They are for a chemical element collection.
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2006, 07:25:18 PM »
oh pretty sweet dude, how many do you have and which is the rarest?
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Re: Fun with Alkali Metals
« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2006, 08:11:28 PM »
No doubt you'd want to save some of it.  My puny collection of chemicals could certainly use a boost.  I don't think however, that I'd be able to resist the fun of throwing it in a lake.  Or perhaps taking one of those dissolvable ampules and flushing it down a toilet.  Hehe..school would be out for a while trying to fix that mess up.
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