it came out of an older stove and i know it's not mercury.. it smokes when hits air, and sparks a flame when it hits anything solid...
any ideas?
2006-09-22 07:18:43 · 6 answers · asked by a_dark_shaolin 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
maybe lithium??? the stuff was liquid and when i spread it out it looked silver-ish till it wisped away as smoke...
2006-09-22 07:36:39 · update #1
maybe lithium??? the stuff was liquid and when i spread it out it looked silver-ish till it wisped away as smoke... it was in the thermostat thingy and no i'm not bs'ing anyone i have anothwer stove i'llget it on video and post it real soon
2006-09-22 13:06:48 · update #2
Apart from mercury, the metallic liquids are caesium, francium, rubidium, and gallium. (Phosphorus is neither a liquid nor a metal.) Francium is highly radioactive and only exists in tiny quantities in ores, so it's not that. Gallium is not highly reactive with air, so that's out. But Caesium and Rubidium are both highly reactive with water vapor in air, so I guess it's probably one of those two, even though I cannot find a reference to suggest that either one would be used in a stove.
2006-09-22 07:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where in the stove was it? If it sublimated away in air wouldn't have had to be in an airtight container? I know of no substance that acts like this let alone something that would be in a stove!
If it 'sparks a flame when it hits anything solid.' what was it inside of?
2006-09-22 07:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by AmigaJoe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude... Sweet... I'm gonna go look in old stoves... And yes, Phosphorous does spontaneously combust... It's very unstable.. How it got into a stove, I don't know, but that's possible...
2006-09-22 07:26:59 · answer #3 · answered by xcrimsonxphoenixofxhellx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't know.........but i wouln't research this as a pure chem element...it's a compound......and i think i smell a rat...a big suckn narcotics rat...are you playn bullsh games...get yr butt over to the fire dept.....if the stove yr talking about is a household stove there is nothing in the manufactures system that would allow this.........so somebody cooked something........and if it's like you say....i'm askin you point blank....why do you think grow and chemical labs for the purpose of illegal narcotics...blow up?
2006-09-22 08:02:28 · answer #4 · answered by rod h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Phosphorous will spontaneously combust at normal room temperatures.
2006-09-22 07:23:59 · answer #5 · answered by Papucho 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot of metals will do that however most of them are so unstable that i'm not sure how they wouldn't have degraded long ago.
2006-09-22 09:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Franklin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋