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Originally posted by DetectivePerez
Thanks for the information. Is there a reaction stronger than a nuclear reaction?
...probably less than an ounce of Francium at any time in the total crust of the earth.
Originally posted by twitchy
But if you wanted to kill people with flouride, the best way to do that would be to put it in people's toothpaste and drinking water...
Originally posted by Yarnos
damn, we have fluoride in the water here.
Hey they advertise fluoride in toothpaste because it is supposedly good for your teeth. I guess not then.
Yeah, bomb would literally "decay" before its use.
Originally posted by twitchy
Francium's longest lasting isotope has a half life of something like twenty minutes, so it might be hard to bomb anything with it...
Just having few atoms "willing to trade electrons" isn't enough to create explosion, there have to be enough material and reaction has to very fast and it has to release enough energy.
Originally posted by DetectivePerez
How big of an explosion would this chemical reaction create?
people.howstuffworks.com...
A typical explosive consists of some explosive material, some sort of detonation device and, typically, some sort of housing. The explosive material undergoes a rapid chemical reaction, either a combustion or decomposition reaction, when triggered by heat or shock energy from the detonator.
In the chemical reaction, compounds break down to form various gases. The reactants (the original chemical compounds) have a lot of energy stored up as chemical bonds between different atoms. When the compound molecules break apart, the products (the resulting gases) may use some of this energy to form new bonds, but not all of it. Most of the "leftover" energy takes the form of extreme heat.
Originally posted by DetectivePerez
lets say we found out how to alter the chemical compositions of elements.
If we took Fluoride and made it want to gain an electron even more.
And then we took Francium and made it want to lose an electron even more and making its half life much longer...
Originally posted by Simulacra
Well fluoride is good for your teeth.
Fifty years ago the US Government added fluoride to the public water supplies because it reduced cavities. Two-thirds of the American water supply is fluoridated.
[edit on 11/15/2004 by Simulacra]