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Sodium does not react easily with oxygen at a room temperature so it has to be heated up a little for the reaction to start.

Since air is mostly oxygen once the reaction starts it gets pretty...

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To reach other intelligences our technology must reach beyond interplanetary distances it has to go interstellar distances.

The largest radio radar telescope on the planet Earth - Arecibo radio...

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The interior of an 18" square x 1" piece of Plexiglas was charged to 2.2 million volts (MV) using a 5 MV particle accelerator. A layer of excess electrons become trapped deep inside. When...

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The universe began with the big bang, and for the first four hundred thousand years all matter was ionised, indicated by the blue region in the diagram. When the universe had cooled enough to allow...

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This video shows what different colors the alkali elements burn.

Strontium chloride, barium chloride, sodium chloride and potassium chloride are burned.

This video was done by YouTube user 'nitrex'.

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