Putting Lithium Into 7UP

What fun is it when you have a laboratory full of different things you can combine to see what happens! It’s even better when you have a professor around to encourage such shenanigans, then offer some questions to explore and ideas for possible explanations. That’s what’s happening here as they add a bar of lithium to a beaker of 7UP. Why? Because 7UP originally had lithium salts in its recipe.  

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We wouldn't bother showing you what happened if it weren't interesting. The University of Nottingham School of Chemistry brings us another Periodic Video with Sir Martyn Poliakoff. -via Viral Viral Videos

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Strange thing is that as much as it smells of stinky feet and/or goat cheese gone bad, I got coaxed by thai friends into eating the the stuff during a vacation in Thailand. Guess what? It's actually quite good, the fruit itself has a nice taste, with delicate and subtle sweetness, nice texture and but a hint of the noxious odor as an aftertaste.

After that, eating durian-flavoured cookies (oreo-like) and durian-flavoured ice-cream became quite pleasurable.
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