heard this somewhere, not sure if i spelt cesium right but its a substance that when put in water causes an explosion. all answers appreciated thanks.
2006-10-07 19:36:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Hell no.
Cesium is an alkali metal a little more intense than potassium.
In contact with water, it generates heat and hydrogen, which ignites if there is enough air around. It cannot detonate.
TNT, by contrast, detonates. It releases much more energy in a much smaller time-frame than does Cesium and water.
1000 tons is a kiloton. Kilotons of TNT is the rating scale for nukes. The Hiroshima bomb was a max of 20 kilotons TNT. So this is 20 thousand tons of TNT. Ivy King and Tsar Bomba were atomic tests by the US and USSR, respectively. Each of these large nukes was much, much more than Hiroshima.
2006-10-07 19:50:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest nuclear bomb that was ever exploded was as powerfull as 50 million tons of TNT. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was even 2,000,000 times more powerfull than that. 100 million million tons.
So how could 1000 tons possibly do much harm to the earth? It's ridiculous.
2006-10-07 19:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by Voice of Insanity 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-07 19:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by tomiyo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋