• Question: what two substances make the biggest reaction?

    Asked by calvis to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 25 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      Protons and neutrons (nuclear fusion after the big bang)?

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      Hopefully you’ll get your teacher to show you sodium and water? Well, if you use Barium or Strontium instead you get a pretty good explosion.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      The biggest reaction means the biggest explosion, so I reckon Tom’s dead on with fusion.

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