mr.Frank Sev

Dunno. Aluminium faster than steel, in general.

lead waaay faster than silicon

silicon is a metal?

yep

So's calcium, now that's weird.

I understand now how it's a metallic element...being it's a semi-conductor - now that I've looked at silicon's characteristics. It's been far too many decades since I've studied that stuff. Thanks for the memory jogger.

Apparently, reading further, so is sodium (a metal).

Isn't it similar to lithium and potassium? If you put either of them in water it's quite dramatic.

Dramatic as in highly reactive?

Isn't it the same thing?

when I worked as a chemist, I was doing R&D on REE and extracting them from their ores. Theres a lot of reactions involving many of the "alkali metals" (sodium, potassium etc). SO we had lots of these metals stored in "safe cans" SOdium was kept in organic solvents . SOmetimes, when you get on a trail of something neat we would work all night and sleep in the labs. SO for kicks we would make little devices from Sodium metal and toss em into the storage lagoons. KA BOOOOM. Even as a scientist there is a great deal of 11 year old kid in us.

As a former B&W darkroom labrat, I miss all the fun since getting rid of my darkroom for last 18 or so yrs ago. No kabooms but lots of alchemy magic. Been digital since 1998.

You can also flush it. Interesting reaction, from what I've heard.