Swans on Tea

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1. mississippichem on June 4th, 2011

   Swansont:

   Did you ever see the fake cesium in a bathtub video? They blew up a ceramic bathtub full of water with about a gram of cesium. I don’t buy it.

   Do you guys ever run into moisture concerns in your cesium fountain? I assume it is in high vacuum right?

2. Margaret K. Westfall on June 4th, 2011

   That was the best laugh I’ve had yet today – yay cesium!

3. swansont on June 5th, 2011

   I have seen the fake bathtub video.

   We keep our cesium and rubidium under vacuum when in the clocks, and it comes in a sealed ampoule with argon. We break the ampoule in the vacuum system.

4. mississippichem on June 5th, 2011

   Ive never had the joy of working with cesium before.

5. rob on June 6th, 2011

   i saw the whole movie that this is from back in high school in the early 80′s. it was fun. if i remember correctly, they also took a diamond. heated it up red hot with a torch and dropped it in liquid oxygen. it burned away. cool.

   here is a link i found, but not to the same movie:

   http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-08/burn-diamonds-torch-and-liquid-oxygen