# Natrium *The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 12 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### ori kowarsky *12 Jan 2005, 10:34* 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 --- ### Roy C. Lackey *12 Jan 2005, 21:20 · follows ori kowarsky* Hey Ori, It's been years. Welcome back! -Roy --- ### ori kowarsky *13 Jan 2005, 10:39 · follows Roy C. Lackey* Thanks Roy, but I never left -- I just didn't have much to add to the discussion! Ori ---