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| | Sodium: A Spectacular Element. Cliff Schrader, Lee Marek, Mike Offutt, Tom Lehrer, Bob Lewis, and Greg Kimble |
 | | Like many of us “natriophiles,” the late Cliff Schrader (whose obituary will appear in The Chemical Educator) of the University of Akron and longtime chemistry teacher at Dover High School in Ohio, had regularly demonstrated this reaction for his students over a period of decades [2]. |
 | | In 1974 one of his former students, who had discontinued using the metal in a manufacturing process, offered him a 215-liter drum containing 34 five-kilogram cylinders of sodium, which would last him for several centuries at the rate at which he normally consumed it! |
 | | The program continues with demo master and Naperville North High School teacher Lee Marek of “Weird Science” and the David Letterman TV “Late Show” fame, discussing and demonstrating reactions of the alkali metals lithium, sodium, and potassium with water and of sodium with chlorine. |
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