<I suspect Michael McDermott>
Here are some posts made by him, seems to write very well and knows a lot about explosives. I have read several of them so far.
Sample post.
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Author: Michael M. McDermott <mucko@mediaone.net>
"bob" <nomail@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:RQWt5.1817$uS6.329272@dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net...
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> uberchlor wrote in message <8p98h2$t90$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
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> >
> >Doing it was even funner.
>
> I remeber my first experience with sodium... (about a decade ago,
fortunatly
> I have learned to be much more prudent since then)
> I ordered several one pound bricks, and took one over to a friends house
how
> had a lake on his property.
> I opened up the first tim of sodium (stored under argon) and cut off a
small
> (maybe 10 gram) piece with a sharp knife
> tossed it in the water, and nothing muich happened. it fizzled arounda
> little, so i figured, 'to hell with it' and tossed the rest of the block
> in....
> about the time where the 1 pound block left my fingertips, the small
chunck
> went with a fairly health 'pop', luckily my friend and I were far enough
> away to avoid any injurys formt he much louder 'pop' that followed....
>
Did something similar myself, back when Neptunium was a variety
of Uranium.
My ill-chosen companions and I discovered that rubbing bars of
sodium and potassium together (under an inert gas, fortunately)
produced a liquid alloy.
We had pretty much exhausted the university's supply of the
alkali metals before the fun wore off (remember, we were young.) Slowly, the realization dawned upon us that we must dispose of
the evidence. Fortunately, one of my simian accomplices voiced
the thought that "Pouring it down the drain might be a bad thing."
So, we bottled it up, pulled it from the dry box, and, under
cover of darkness, hiked it out to the local bridge. Before
consigning it to the briny deep, we popped it open so we could
"Hear if it fizzles when it hits the water."
You know, 'surprised' can be an alarmingly inadequate word.
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