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Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic]

From Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic]
Date 2016-01-04 11:12 +0100
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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


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Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Waye Kitchens <wscom@complang.net> - 2015-12-30 22:26 +0000
  Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 15:34 -0800
    Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Waye Kitchens <wscom@complang.net> - 2015-12-31 00:32 +0000
      Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-03 13:59 +1100
        Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 22:31 -0800
        Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Kathleen Winder <katwin@mcgatlin.org> - 2016-01-03 13:24 +0000
          Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Kathleen Winder <katwin@mcgatlin.org> - 2016-01-03 13:34 +0000
            Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 15:01 -0800
              Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Kathleen Winder <katwin@mcgatlin.org> - 2016-01-03 23:07 +0000
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-01-03 16:22 -0800
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Kathleen Winder <katwin@mcgatlin.org> - 2016-01-04 19:21 +0000
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-01-04 12:39 -0800
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Kathleen Winder <katwin@mcgatlin.org> - 2016-01-04 20:47 +0000
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-01-04 18:48 -0800
          Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-04 11:58 +1100
            Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-01-03 20:22 -0800
              Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-04 16:29 +1100
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 11:12 +0100
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-04 23:17 +1100
                Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 13:57 +0100
            Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Kathleen Winder <katwin@mcgatlin.org> - 2016-01-04 19:23 +0000
              Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-05 10:33 +1100
    Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-31 12:22 -0800
      Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 01:02 -0800
        Re: Our Solar System Is Overflowing with Liquid Water [Graphic] Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-02 04:49 -0800

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