Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 23:17:17 +1100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <56d71d3f-f605-4031-bbf2-0a3553c57540@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net JheLBGvf4LvuvXI6zA3T+g4lBWInjJ/0L46SGOSqRue9Kr4nAU Cancel-Lock: sha1:r8S1t6dGAuSDwmxBAziwwQC0SEA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:373264 On 4/01/2016 9:12 PM, Poutnik wrote: > On 01/04/2016 06:29 AM, Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 4/01/2016 3:22 PM, pnalsing@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 4:58:50 PM UTC-8, Sylvia Else wrote: >>> >>>> Things often burn in oxygen, but I've not seen anything burn in water. >>> >>> Well, there is always sodium.. >>> >>> tp://tinyurl.com/nfnclat >>> >>> ... but I don't know if this is technically 'burning'... we used to pinch chunks of sodium from the chem lab and toss them onto the local lagoon; it was quite a display! >> >> No, it's not burning. >> >> It's liberating hydrogen, and it's the hydrogen that burns, ignited by >> the heat of reaction of the sodium with the water. >> > > In fact, hydrogen gets ignited by sparks from the sodium, > that gets positively charged by releasing electrons to water. > > It was recently predicted > by quantum chemistry simulation of atom clusters > and confirmed by high speed camera. > > See also > > http://www.nature.com/news/sodium-s-explosive-secrets-revealed-1.16771 > http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.html > > OK, interesting. Doesn't affect my central point, though. Sylvia.