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1. My chem teacher did the sodium-in-water demo

Wed Jun 3, 2026, 10:00 PM

19 hrs ago

And a few years earlier a teacher imploded an empty gas can, back when they were thin-walled and rectangular. Fun stuff!

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My teachers didn't do any of these [View all] Figarosmom 19 hrs ago OP

My chem teacher did the sodium-in-water demo Orrex 19 hrs ago #1

Way cool! 3catwoman3 19 hrs ago #2

I did the foam explosion. debm55 19 hrs ago #3

That is so cool.😚 Figarosmom 18 hrs ago #4

Wish I'd been in classes with experiments like that! summer_in_TX 17 hrs ago #5