This got brought up in my princeton review chem class... so I figured Id look it up to see how crazy it is.
They mention Francium, its immensely radioactive and at no time has every been more than 10,000 atoms ever been isolated of the element... and those atoms were taken from a decaying isotope of another element. In any case, Francium could probably take out 2-3 blocks (if not more) and do alot of damage to everything in the surrounding area.
Zoso
Hell yes! Chemistry can be so much fun. It's amazing to think that everything in the universe is made up of atoms that we can't even see, interacting at a subatomic level, and who knows how far beyond/below that level.
MrJiveBoJingles
At least one of these particular reactions was apparently faked:
But what really happened? Deep Throat (OK, Brainiac's Dr Bunhead, aka Tom Pringle) claims: "Absolutely bloody nothing. The density of caesium ensured it hit the bottom of the bath like a lead weight. The sheer volume of water then drowned out the thermal shock-wave I was expecting to shatter the bath. They could not go home empty handed. So they rigged a bomb in the bottom of the bath and then blew the out of it. I must say it did look cool ... [It] ate away at my conscience. But I couldn't do anything about it."
That's not to say that caesium isn't capable of fierce reactions. The people on the show just used too much water for it to actually work. Kind of disappointing.
Vlad
ghey...
oh well, still looks cool.
But Im sure 2g of francium (if it would ever be obtained) could rip it hard.
MrJiveBoJingles
Francium has a really short half-life (half an hour or something, I think), so that would be pretty tough without some heavy duty physics equipment.
Who knows, though, might be possible. Would be neat to see. :D
Vlad
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Francium has a really short half-life (half an hour or something, I think), so that would be pretty tough without some heavy duty physics equipment.
Who knows, though, might be possible. Would be neat to see. :D
When I looked it up, it was 21 minutes. But it was an isolated isotope of another element, not actual pure francium. Its believed that somewhere on the Earth there is at any given time about 300-400 grams of the stuff somewhere in the depths of the planet.
XoxidE
lol...Deep Throat
Silky Johnson
This thread reminds me that I registered in the biggest waste of time course ever: Integrated Sciences. Should be quite the ing joke.
MrJiveBoJingles
Is that some kind of general science course?
dj_bas
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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Is that some kind of general science course?
I think it's a kind of integrated science course.
:p
LeopoldStotch
does this mean that i don't have to steal plutonium from the libyians to generate my 1.2 Jigawatts into my flux compacator ?
:conf:
MrJiveBoJingles
"Integrated" outside the context of math is normally just a buzzword that can be used to mean quite a few things. :p
