[time-nuts] Rubidium & Cesium video
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Oct 29 19:18:01 UTC 2006
In message <4544FB5C.8080405 at garychatters.com>, Gary Chatters writes:
>>> For those of you who are both chemists and time nuts,
>>> here's an amazing video about rubidium and cesium...
>>>
>>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2134266654801392897
>>
>> Very impressive. Though I read a story somewhere
>> that they faked the results for dramatic effect,
>> for the cameras.
>
>Yep. According to badscience.net they faked the cesium explosion. If
>the rubidium was real it was definitely impressive.
See counter-demonstration here:
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/AlkaliBangs/index.html
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