[time-nuts] alkali metals and water

[Irene Meyer]

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 <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] alkali metals and water
> To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <time-nuts at 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-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Magnus Danielson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:15 PM
> To: time-nuts at 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
> 
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