(urth) Natrium

[ori kowarsky]

For those with high-speed connections here is a video of a lump of sodium 
bouncing around in a lake:

http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/Videos/SodiumLake01.MOV

Here s the link to the site the movie comes from, explaining how the sodium 
lept three or for times about forty feet in the air after each contact with 
H2O (mid-page, but the whole range of experiments is funny/terrifying too):

http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/

Enjoy!

Ori