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A nuclear flask made out of 280 tons of solid steel. It is important that these flasks are safe so they are tested extensively!

At one of the tests where the flask was filled with water and...

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When potassium is heated is starts reacting with oxygen. Since air is mostly oxygen, the reaction happens pretty quickly and it starts burning.

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Lithium reacts with chlorine, a violent reaction happens and lithium starts to burn instantly.

This video was done by University of Oxford.

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Hinode captured a total eclipse in orbit on 19th March 2007, while it was just a partial eclipse on the ground.
These data are used to measure scatterd light of telescopes. X-ray Telescope (XRT)...

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A small amount of lithium is heated and it reacts very quickly with oxygen creating a burst.

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