Look at the SIZE of that thing
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Feb. 27th, 2013 | 07:00 pm
From the "I-wouldn't-drop-that-if-I-were-you" department:
Image: Dnn87 at en.wikipedia; cc-by-sa-3.0
That's a sample of 99.999% pure cesium... a whopping 1.36 kilograms of it, to be precise, stored in a massive ampoule in (I assume) mineral oil.
No, you definitely don't want to drop that. Just looking at that thing gives me the shivers.
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And yeah, for the sake of his neighbors (and everyone, really), one can only hope he doesn't live in an apartment block right in the middle of a busy city. :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesium
HOPEFULLY, this person knows to keep it WELL away from water.
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