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Yes, Kevin but when you're in a cramped space and you see that big spark and the resulting POW, your brain stops processing logic for a moment.

When I was in high school our chemistry teacher discovered in an old railroad warehouse a sealed container with sodium metal inside. The container was thick glass with what looked like a bakelite top. As I recall it had to be stored in kerosene or naphtha...something like that. He brought it into our class...all agog with excitement because he knew it would react in water and wanted us to see it. The container was covered in red danger stickers in 3 or 4 languages and the piece of metal was about 2" x 3" x 4". It looked very old and covered in a soft whitish layer of what we supposed was oxidation damage. Maybe something brought up from a shipwreck. At the front of the class was an oak observation cabinet with arm holes/gloves on each side and a tempered glass front which slid down from the top. He poured about a quart of water into a plastic bucket and dropped the chunk of metal in...all of it. Nothing happened, so he closed the glass front, turned around to the class and started saying "well, I'm sorry class. Looks like this is too old and just a dud." A few seconds after he finished the sentence, an explosion blew glass bits, water and pieces of wood across everyone in the room and seemed to shake the entire school. The silence that followed was maybe the most remarkable part of it. I recall the girl who sat next to me just staring at me and blinking. His eyes were as large as golf balls and when the principal ran in to see what happened, he couldn't even make a sentence.