There's also sodium-potassium alloy (NaK), which has rather interesting properties--liquid at room temperature, spontaneous superoxide formation with air--and was used as a coolant in some nuclear reactors.
-- Irene On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:52:55AM +0000, Robert Atkinson wrote: > Hmm, > Anyone else remember Sodium-Sulphur secondary batteries? they were proposed > for electric vehicles in the late 70's I rode on a prototype at Chloride. You > have to heat them up to melt both the Sodium and the Sulphur to make them > work (about 270 deg C). Always sounded like a bad mixture to me. > ? > Robert G8RPI. > ? > > > --- On Wed, 2/3/11, Bob Camp <li...@rtty.us> wrote: > > > From: Bob Camp <li...@rtty.us> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] alkali metals and water > To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" > <time-nuts@febo.com> > Date: Wednesday, 2 March, 2011, 20:59 > > > Hi > > I believe we were up to several tons of mercury in the basement when the > thread died for some reason. Could be quite a splash if that got loose. > > It's the couple of hundred pounds of liquid metallic sodium in the heating > system that seems to have the neighbors a bit concerned these days. (That > always was seemed to be a risky thing to do..). > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On > Behalf Of Magnus Danielson > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:15 PM > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] alkali metals and water > > On 03/02/2011 08:53 PM, Robert Atkinson wrote: > > Agreed, > > Braniac just do rigged explosions and special effects. Unfortunatly many > take it as fact. It makes Mythbusters look lokr PhD research. > > I can drop a spare LPRO-101 into a bowl of water, but I don't think the > result will be spectacular even with power hooked up. > > Dropping a 5071A into a bathtub will be a more spectacular splash, but > nothing to write home about. > > Now, this makes me recall the big tanks of water and LPROs in Bob's > basement. Consider the water damages it would do... > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.