When a chunk of alkali metal gets tossed into water, it explodes. But when a team of scientists gently placed a liquid drop of a sodium-potassium alloy on top of a water surface, they observed a ...

WHEN these metals are heated in a vacuous tube in such a way as to cause an extremely thin sublimate of the metal to condense upon the glass, the film so obtained will be found to possess a beautiful ...

The news broke that a railroad car, loaded with pure sodium, had just derailed and was spilling its contents. A television reporter called me for an explanation of why firefighters were not allowed to ...

(i) They are lustrous, i.e., they have a shiny surface. (ii) All metals are solids except mercury which is liquid at room temperature. (iii) Metals are ductile which means they can be drawn into wires ...