Alkali metals in water, accurate!

For anyone who insists it is fake, www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD6HwUE2c0 and stop giving me a headache.
Watch to the end for the best (Cesium!)! A wonderful representation of the alkali metals and their accurate reactivity with water. unlike brainiac, who did infact use explosives in their episode for rubidium and cesium. Very worth a watch.
All credit for this video goes to the makers of physical science, and openlearn.open.ac.uk. Link here:
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=294420
Made available by Creative commons attribution.
Footage from:
"Physical Science: The Living Textbook" (Cosmic Chemistry chapters 1-6), copyright 1991 by Optical Data Corp., 30 Technology Drive, Warren, New Jersey
Thank you for this video.
Ps. You will not get to see Francium in water!

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[Trollsnews]

we should all send letters to mythbusters that if you take a ton of cesium and drop it into lake nothing happens. They will have to try it and show us!

[theoscarrock]

Hermoso y desconocido.

[YodSamechLamed]

@TheWandetBoy Francium is so radioactive that it decays almost instantly, reaction would be impossible to observe.

[TheWandetBoy]

I should ask my chemistry teacher to put francium in water and watch the school as it explodes, quite tempting...

[AdrianBandic]

"let's try cesium, our 5th alkali metal."

*drops it*

KA-BOOM!!!! I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING :'D

[SuperShadow64]

I fucking love science

[jigabop]

@SNLSniping The reason you don't see Francium done, is because it is very unstable and its almost impossible to get a hold of because it doesn't last very long before it breaks down. You would have to make it yourself to even try to get a water reaction. If its anything like cesium, it will be in liquid form at room temperature. cesium melts at around 70 to 80 degrees F

[JRVideoChannel]

The video is only interesting after 2:12 XD

[daireduffy1]

oh now i know why we didnt try cesium in school lol

[SNLSniping]

@Trollsnews NO we should try Francium the last one, too dangerous too try!

[Brietzke4]

@Trancelotics Lol this is the same video we just watched a few days ago in science

[Trancelotics]

This clip used to be played in my chemistry class in secondary school.  When there was some spare time in class (i.e. teacher couldn't be bothered that particular day :P), he'd ask which chemistry show we wanted to watch: and it'd always be this show just for the caesium shot! Thanks very much for the nostalgia moment, uploader!