i had this thought enter my head....i remember something from chem class and the teacher saying chemicals can REACT VERY quick to water...

well what if someone knew some and went outside when before it rained and poured something all over the place and then the rain would come and Reaction would be everywhere right???????

well its raining a lot here now and i need something to react with water on this bring friday night....

any crazed or strange ideas? thanks.

It wouldn't work cause there is too much pollution in the rain these days. Besides in chemistry, you want to reduce the amount variables. Mother Nature is not always that predictable.

GOOD POINT.....

That is true but if you want something to have a nice reasction with minimal cost try to get some pure potasium. Crunch it up into a dust a spead it on a neighbor's yard. When water hits it the potassium would catch on fire and if floating will move very fast glidding on the water. You can also see it if you through a chunck into a pool :-)

Magnesium would work too.

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Don't worry.....I put my pants out....but yours are still on fire

wow thanks guys thats awsome...it was postassium we used in chem....its all coming back to me....

*sprinkles francium about*

im pretty sure magnesium would not work. magnesium just burns very very brightly when heated. it does not react with water.

potassium, sodium, and i heard cesium work. most of the elements down that first column of the periodic table.

cesium being hard to get, i think potassium would be your best bet. in contact with water, it will smoke for a couple seconds, then ignite with a purplish flame.

the orginal point to this thread is what??

To mix chemicals in the rain so they wont explode or burn right then and there but wait for sunshine to hit the next day and have a surprize boom?

no....to explode right when the RAIN comes....