Haz,
Glad someone could help on the question. All I remember from high school chemistry is that I thought it would be a good idea to put Francium into the school fountain, but the teacher didn't think that was such a hot idea. 
I was a little pyromaniac back then......... 
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Our chemistry teacher actually put a rather large chunk of pure metallic sodium into about a liter of water during class one time. We all managed to get out of the room - at his rather loud and insistent instruction BTW - before it blew. It was an accident, but then he seemed to have a number of those "accidents". Nothing intentional, just a bit on the distracted side. Nice guy tho, family friend too.
A pyro huh? Did you almost burn your house down? I did. Also built missiles out of savaged M1 cartridges and some powder using curtain rod tubes as the launchers. Played with fires in the city dump, using cast iron waste pipe as mortar tubes, dropped aerosol cans nozzle end into the tubes with one end in the fire.
That's all I'm going to admit to.