Completely Incompatible As A Food Source

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That said I think you are confusing sodium YouTube and potassium YouTube with the water reaction.

Both pure sodium and pure potassium will have an explosive reaction with water due to the heat of the reaction igniting the hydrogen gas product. IIRC the elements under them in that column of the periodic table have this property as well

[–]makesyoudownvote 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are right, my bad.