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What are you staring at, me exploding in your face??!! 

Status update

9/28/13 Yay!! I'm riding in NASA's rocket engines. To infinity and beyond!!

10/5/13 I'm exploding in the skies...Too many people want purple in their fireworks... 

10/6/13 Just visited Vision Works... I hope to see you there. I'm in those fancy, displayed glasses.

11/3/13 Boron and I are together!...#rubidiumborate

Overview:

I am a really sensitive guy. Most metals are hard, unlike me. My low melting point is 39 degreees celcius. Do not take me outside casually, especially in the rain. I am highly reactive with water and air. I'm an energetic guy.

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1 valence electron. 

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My name is Rubidium. I am a fun-loving element, without a whole lot of everyday uses. Propelling things are what NASA uses me for to see if I can power their next-gen rockets and such. Pretty cool, right? Being your vacuum cleaner getter, is one of the uses for me too.  I am sometimes used to make glasses,  so guess what: I'M ON YOU HUMANS' FACES!!!!!

Oh yeah I just read a website talking all about balancing chemical equations. It was pretty cool. So get this... I love being in all types of reactions... But I LOVE synthesis reactions. This is a chemical formula that shows how two elements, like me, can bond to forma a compound.  They are how I usually react with elements to form a compound. I don't usually have single-displacement reactions, a reaction where one element replaces another's place  in a chemical formula, but I have even less double displacement reactions, a reaction in which two elements replace two other elements' places in a chemical formula. Do you have any decomposition reactions, you might ask? The answer is I don't. I cannot be broken down anymore,. :'( BTW a decomposition reaction is a reaction where one sort of element or compound breaks down into separate elements or compounds.

Places:

10/5/13 I just entered your vacuum cleaner as your getter. Its really dusty in here.

10/7/13 Just visited a Beijing glasses factory. My rubidium brothers and sisters said hi before they got inside some pairs of glasses

10/10/13 There is such a beautiful view up here. Too bad I am sent to explode in the skies for humans to marvel at me... 

11/5/13 I just found out that Bromine and I make rubidium bromide. Isn't that cool??!! Look for yourself: 2Rb(s) + F2(g) → RbF(s)

11/5/13 So I just found this really cool book about balancing chemical equations by this guy with a Ph.D. So naturally I wanted to read it. It said to balance a chemical equation, one needs to add coefficients to both sides of the equation to make both sides equal in the coefficients matching to the elements in the equation. To do this, one needs to separate the coefficients on both sides of the arrow. Then one needs to list the individual elements on either side of the equation. By adding coefficients to the equation and multiplying the coefficients of the other elements, one needs to get all the coefficients on both sides equal to match with the corresponding elements. Pretty neat stuff, eh! :D 

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 Atom and Bonding Diagrams

Bohr Diagram of me!

My electron dot diagram.  

This is the scale drawing of me. You got to admit; I look handsome.

Bohr

P+ 37

N= 49

E= 37

Electron Dot Diagram for Rubidium

Rubidium Scale Drawing

 Me and my friends - Around the World

This is me inside of a glass

tube. As you should know, if I was displayed in air, then

some people will get hurt from the explosion that would follow. Inside the glass that holds me are my BFF's Oxygen and Silicon

I am used in this exact atomic watch. Say hi to my bud silicon and my bud lithium(he is in the battery).

 This is my house: lepidolite. Usually my buds Cesium and Lithium hangout with me. If you ever need to know where I am, I will be here.

I glow with brilliance in this glass lamp! There are my glass friends Oxygen and Silicon

I am in this Rubidium Oscillator (obviously). Say hi to  silicon and tin

Groups:

Alkali-Metal, Metal, Element, Period 5

Friends:    

             Lithium                    Sodium                                          Pottasium                          Cesium                                        Francium