The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 16 hours agoThe grand prizelemmy.worldimagemessage-square116fedilinkarrow-up1761arrow-down16
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minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·14 hours agoIt sinks. Tungsten isn’t reactive with water, it’s not an alkali metal. Sodium, lithium, potassium etc (alkali metals) would react violently with water though.
minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·14 hours agoI was remembering it wrong. Oops. In chemistry class, we had a professor who put a cube of some material into water and it skidded along the surface making very angry noises. Can’t remember which element that was.
minus-squareivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 hours agoGood luck retrieving your giant tungsten payday from the murky depths now.
minus-squarecows_are_underrated@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 hours agoA frankium cube that big would be neat. Only downside is, that half of it is decayed after like 7 Minutes(if I remember correctly)
It sinks.
Tungsten isn’t reactive with water, it’s not an alkali metal.
Sodium, lithium, potassium etc (alkali metals) would react violently with water though.
I was remembering it wrong. Oops. In chemistry class, we had a professor who put a cube of some material into water and it skidded along the surface making very angry noises. Can’t remember which element that was.
Probably Potassium
K
Good luck retrieving your giant tungsten payday from the murky depths now.
Catmium
A frankium cube that big would be neat. Only downside is, that half of it is decayed after like 7 Minutes(if I remember correctly)