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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4359502" data-attributes="member: 26737">Raw magnesium won’t do anything unless you set it on fire, but raw sodium will light up your life in contact with air. My algebra 2 teacher told us about a prank he pulled when he was in high school. He was the student aide for the chemistry class, so he had access to the storage room for the chemistry supplies. One day he snuck into the supply room,  fished out a big chunk of sodium, wrapped it in a bunch of wet paper towels to keep it from igniting, then headed out for the 2nd floor men’s room. Then he flushed it down a toilet. A short while later he was greeted by six foot gushers of water coming out of all of the toilets. I think he said it was Classen in OKC, but it was a three-story high school, and he said they figured that the sodium chunk had made it just outside the building before it built up enough pressure to blow back. He also wondered what it had looked like on the first and third floors, and if anybody had been using them at the time…</blockquote>