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Posted: Mar 05, 2008 2:59 p.m. - Subject: sodium
Today, street lighting commonly uses high-intensity discharge lamps, often HPS high pressure sodium lamps.
so in physics we learned street lamps contain a solid lump of sodium
just wonderign if its possible to obtain sodium from breaking in to a street lamp.
if you can get that high
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Posted: Mar 05, 2008 3:23 p.m. - Subject:
it’s only a small amount. It is held in a vacuum, so it doesn’t react with anything. It would be really hard get it by breaking the lamp, you would have to saw it off or something.
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Posted: Mar 05, 2008 3:27 p.m. - Subject:
Depending on the grade of sodium, it may or may not react violently with the moisture in the air.