Reacting Fluorine with Caesium - First Time on Camera
In preparation for the 2012 Christmas Lectures Dr Peter Wothers heads off to the University of Leicester to conduct an extraordinary experiment - reacting the most reactive metal in the periodic...
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So I've come up to the University of Leicester, and I've brought with me a tube here containing Caesium. Caesium is found in the far corner here. And it is the most reactive metal in the entire periodic table Even more reactive than Francium. This is a radioactive element and it decays. But actually, Caesium is more reactive than this. It's the most reactive thing we can find. Now, why have I come up to Leicester? I brought this because I want to see how it reacts with the most reactive, non-metal in the entire periodic table. And that's the element Fluorine. And we don't think this has ever been shown before, so we're not entirely sure how it's going to go. So I'm gonna go and see. Having decided that I wanted to d...
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So I've come up to the University of Leicester, and I've brought with me a tube here containing Caesium. Caesium is found in the far corner here. And it is the most reactive metal in the entire periodic table Even more reactive than Francium. This is a radioactive element and it decays. But actually, Caesium is more reactive than this. It's the most reactive thing we can find. Now, why have I come up to Leicester? I brought this because I want to see how it reacts with the most reactive, non-metal in the entire periodic table. And that's the element Fluorine. And we don't think this has ever been shown before, so we're not entirely sure how it's going to go. So I'm gonna go and see. Having decided that I wanted to d...
