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Old Aug 20, 2009, 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by Spiff
Sodium, all by itself, reacts violently with water and also reacts with air.

Sodium is usually stored in oil. You can throw a chunk of it into water and then see it go boom once the water gets past the oil.
Yup...quite fun. I suppose in a <3.4 ounce container with a little bit of oil in it coating the sodium metal you could have a lot of fun on a plane. That would be bad in the lav.

I do wonder just how much of an issue it would be with battery cells, though I guess a dedicated terrorist could disassemble one on the plane to harvest the metal??
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