Coulomb explosion

Posted by dkarapetyan on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:59AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_explosion

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Re:Coulomb explosion by m1el on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:03AM (#9170093)

Recent example of a coulomb explosion with sodium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8

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Re:Coulomb explosion by stared on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:58AM (#9170248)

^ A great research started on YouTube, which ended up in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.ht....

It's why it makes sense to study "already well understood" processes (to the point that sodium explosion is used as one of typical chemistry experiments for high schools).

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Re:Coulomb explosion by theon144 on Monday March 09, 2015 @06:46AM (#9170205)

Recently appeared in this really interesting /r/AskScience thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2ycv92/when_lig...

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Re:Coulomb explosion by robewald on Monday March 09, 2015 @05:33AM (#9170013)

Thanks for posting. It is not really relevant right now, but an interesting concept that might be handy when facing other problems.

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