If I remember alkali metals past a certain point react with water so much that the explosion would be less intense. This is because the reaction with water happens fast enough to create an insulating barrier of gas between the metal and the water. This slows down the reaction considerably.
Oh neat, i used to live in Anderson and walked through the AU campus quite often, not a bad little university.
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In fact i'm pretty sure i know where this pond is at.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;47179562]So what exactly happens to the atoms that a reaction this powerful happens?[/QUOTE]
This is what happens in slow motion:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEVmflpUCo[/media]
[QUOTE=uitham;47165406]bitch do francium[/QUOTE]
Francium? Pffft. Throw a block of antimatter in the lake and enjoy a real man's fireworks. RIP Earth though.
[QUOTE=LordApocca;47199410]Francium? Pffft. Throw a block of antimatter in the lake and enjoy a real man's fireworks. RIP Earth though.[/QUOTE]
A block of antimatter is far from being able to RIP Earth. You'd need a portion large enough that it would be able to cancel out a significant amount of Earth's own regular mattter to be able to fuck the world.
EDIT Why the disagrees?
[QUOTE=Ferosso;47165089]That looks awesome, but I can't help but think about what happens to the fish :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
It's a dam
Cool :D Science is fun!
[QUOTE=J!NX;47166026]What chemical would react more violently than anything else in the world if you did this?
throw a barrel of it into the lake[/QUOTE]
I can think of many. As many others have mentioned, any alkali metal below sodium would give a more violent reaction. Cesium essentially explodes when it hits water.
Organometallic compounds will offer far more spectacular fireworks, though. Grignard reagents probably wouldn't be too bad, and organolithium compounds would give lots of fire. Diethylzinc would probably give a massive explosion, considering it ignites on contact with air:
[video=youtube;EpwlfvERUFc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpwlfvERUFc[/video]
[QUOTE=BFG9000;47208995]A block of antimatter is far from being able to RIP Earth. You'd need a portion large enough that it would be able to cancel out a significant amount of Earth's own regular mattter to be able to fuck the world.[/QUOTE]
1kg of antimatter would release as much energy as the tsar bomba. I agree that that wouldn't destroy the earth, but if we took half of Mount Everest worth of antimatter and smashed it into the earth, it would release more energy than the total gravitational binding energy of the earth, meaning the earth would be going very fast in every direction possible basically.
And half of mount everest is only 1 over 4*10^9 of one earth mass, which I wouldn't call significant.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;47209801]1kg of antimatter would release as much energy as the tsar bomba. I agree that that wouldn't destroy the earth, but if we took half of Mount Everest worth of antimatter and smashed it into the earth, it would release more energy than the total gravitational binding energy of the earth, meaning the earth would be going very fast in every direction possible basically.
And half of mount everest is only 1 over 4*10^9 of one earth mass, which I wouldn't call significant.[/QUOTE]
Besides, "RIP Earth" could just mean that all life on Earth gets wiped out, which really doesn't need all that much. 1 kg of antimatter may not be enough, but you certainly don't need truckloads of it.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;47209801]1kg of antimatter would release as much energy as the tsar bomba. I agree that that wouldn't destroy the earth, but if we took half of Mount Everest worth of antimatter and smashed it into the earth, it would release more energy than the total gravitational binding energy of the earth, meaning the earth would be going very fast in every direction possible basically.
And half of mount everest is only 1 over 4*10^9 of one earth mass, which I wouldn't call significant.[/QUOTE]
Well I'd consider half of Mt Everest to be significant, but a block wouldn't rip earth that's for sure. I don't think it would even cause mass extinction.
[QUOTE=J!NX;47166026]What chemical would react more violently than anything else in the world if you did this?
throw a barrel of it into the lake[/QUOTE]
A barrel of ClF3 :v:
Guys lets just hit an oil tanker filled with nitroglycerin with a very large rock. I'm p. sure that would be a pretty big explosion
[QUOTE=Kyle902;47217490]Guys lets just hit an oil tanker filled with nitroglycerin with a very large rock. I'm p. sure that would be a pretty big explosion[/QUOTE]
I have a better idea, just smash together two pieces of uranium really really fast! It'll be great!
am i correct in thinking that only "regular" matter of a certain element will react with its counterpart antimatter element?
If that wasn't clear, let me make an example: would anti-hydrogen react with iron, or would anti hydrogen only react with hydrogen?
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47221850]am i correct in thinking that only "regular" matter of a certain element will react with its counterpart antimatter element?
If that wasn't clear, let me make an example: would anti-hydrogen react with iron, or would anti hydrogen only react with hydrogen?[/QUOTE]
From my understanding they'd only react with their mirror element, though the energy released would fuck over pmuch anything nearby. But I haven't looked into antimatter much.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47221850]am i correct in thinking that only "regular" matter of a certain element will react with its counterpart antimatter element?
If that wasn't clear, let me make an example: would anti-hydrogen react with iron, or would anti hydrogen only react with hydrogen?[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure - but if you think of it as not chemical elements, but as electrons and positrons, protons and antiprotons and neutrons and antineutrons, it'd only make sense that any kind of antimatter would interact with normal matter.
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