Natrium The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 12 Jan 2005 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4304 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, by subject match ori kowarsky Hey Ori, It's been years. Welcome back! -Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ori kowarsky — 13 Jan 2005, 10:39 follows, by subject match Roy C. Lackey Thanks Roy, but I never left -- I just didn't have much to add to the discussion! Ori ------------------------------------------------------------------------------