• Question: What is the most explosive reaction you can get with just two elements and what are those elements?

    Asked by the josh to Chris, Josh, Rebecca, Rob, Susan on 19 Jun 2015.
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      Susan Cartwright answered on 19 Jun 2015:


      I’m not a chemist, but probably caesium and fluorine, since they are the most reactive of the alkali metals and the most reactive of the halogens respectively. They combine to form caesium fluoride, with a *lot* of energy released.
      (Caesium and water is also spectacularly explosive, but water’s not an element.)

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