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A comment on Coulomb explosion.

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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