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  2. Radium bromide - Wikipedia

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    Radium bromide is highly reactive and crystals can sometimes explode, especially if heated. Helium gas evolved from alpha particles can accumulate within the crystals, which can cause them to weaken and rupture. Radium bromide will crystallize when separated from aqueous solution. It forms a dihydrate, very similar to barium bromide. [4]

  3. Radium compounds - Wikipedia

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    The ionizing radiation emitted by radium bromide excites nitrogen molecules in the air, making it glow. The alpha particles emitted by radium quickly gain two electrons to become neutral helium, which builds up inside and weakens radium bromide crystals. This effect sometimes causes the crystals to break or even explode. [3]

  4. Dry ice bomb - Wikipedia

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    Bombs that fail to go off cannot be safely approached, as they can spontaneously explode. Dry ice bombs can also be unintentionally made, especially if dry ice is left in an airtight container for extended periods of time. [2] Injuries caused by dry ice bombs are common, with glass bottles in particular posing risks of serious injury or death.

  5. Underwater explosions using dry ice in slow motion - AOL

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    Underwater explosions using dry ice and liquid nitrogen are captured in high definition slow motion by The Backyard Scientist.

  6. Radium - Wikipedia

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    The alpha particles emitted by radium quickly gain two electrons to become neutral helium, which builds up inside and weakens radium bromide crystals. This effect sometimes causes the crystals to break or even explode. [25] Radium nitrate (Ra(NO 3) 2) is a white compound that can be made by dissolving radium carbonate in nitric acid. As the ...

  7. Bromide - Wikipedia

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    Bromide salts are used in hot tubs as mild germicidal agents to generate in situ hypobromite. The bromide ion is antiepileptic and as bromide salt, is used in veterinary medicine in the US. The kidneys excrete bromide ions. The half-life of bromide in the human body (12 days) is long compared with many pharmaceuticals, making dosing challenging ...

  8. Steam explosion - Wikipedia

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    Littoral explosion at Waikupanaha ocean entry at the big island of Hawaii was caused by the lava entering the ocean. A steam explosion is an explosion caused by violent boiling or flashing of water or ice into steam, occurring when water or ice is either superheated, rapidly heated by fine hot debris produced within it, or heated by the interaction of molten metals (as in a fuel–coolant ...

  9. Phases of ice - Wikipedia

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    The latter process can occur within ice XVII. [157] In physisorption, there is no chemical reaction, and the chemical bond between the two atoms within a hydrogen molecule remains intact. Because of this, the number of adsorption–desorption cycles ice XVII can withstand is "theoretically infinite". [157]