{"id":15666,"date":"2015-01-28T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15666"},"modified":"2015-01-28T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:30:01","slug":"na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15666","title":{"rendered":"Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Boom Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/sodium-s-explosive-secrets-revealed-1.16771\">Sodium&#8217;s explosive secrets revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The explosion, say Pavel Jungwirth and his collaborators at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, is not merely a consequence of the ignition of the hydrogen gas that the alkali metals release from water. That may happen eventually, but it begins as something far stranger: a rapid exodus of electrons followed by explosion of the metal driven by electrical repulsion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neat. It&#8217;s not the hydrogen reacting with air that causes the alkali to explode. That reaction doesn&#8217;t cause more surface area to be created as the reaction unfolds, so it can&#8217;t &#8220;accelerate&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video in the link, including slow-motion views of the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium&#8217;s explosive secrets revealed The explosion, say Pavel Jungwirth and his collaborators at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, is not merely a consequence of the ignition of the hydrogen gas that the alkali metals release from water. That &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}