Potassium

[Absinth]

Where can i get some?

[Peter Pedant]

what, potassium metal ?

You're joking! Very reactive, soft metallic, burns explosively in water with a pink flame (quite pretty really as you go up in smoke)

something like Pot chloride ? You could buy it in the shops as a salt substitute but read the label

 

Oh and by the way - if you are on a low sodium diet and someone has said K is all right as a substitute - then discuss it with your doctor.

[Absinth]

Thats why I want it! Unless you could get me some Caesium or Francium, so I can have a go at explosive fishing.

[MargeB]

Ore there.

[Absinth]

Marge, the problem is I'm not a miner

[Absinth]

Noooooo, eddie, I mean use some francium for explosive fishing.

[MargeB]

try your local mosque?

[Absinth]

They usually don't have water in Mosques.

[Absinth]

Sure thing, i'll do that (and get some other drugs while i'm at it.)

[Absinth]

Lol, okay

[MargeB]

please sir, I want some ore

[MargeB]

I think that's right. Conspiracy to cause explosions, etc etc. Oh well. World we live in.

[Hamish]

Errr francium is radio active with a half life in minutes....not much chance of getting any or if you could of hanleing it in air. Cesium cost aprox �50 a gram (thats about half a teaspoon).

[Gnisy]

If you want it in the nutrient form then it would be bananas. Potassium is also known as Natrium which in the ionic form is soluble in water. My chemistry is a little rusty though, i'd like someone to confirm or denounce this, if possible.