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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/16/jgly1rlh0iooqnmftfr7.gif?quality=75&w=636636288Video: Sodium, you know what that is. Water, you know what that is. Now watch one of the oldest chemistry class tricks, the combination of two things you already know for an explosion you might have forgotten: if you throw sodium metal into water, it basically sparks up real big and blows up nicely.