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Recent example of a coulomb explosion with sodium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8

^ A great research started on YouTube, which ended up in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.ht....

It's why it makes sense to study "already well understood" processes (to the point that sodium explosion is used as one of typical chemistry experiments for high schools).

Recently appeared in this really interesting /r/AskScience thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2ycv92/when_lig...

Thanks for posting. It is not really relevant right now, but an interesting concept that might be handy when facing other problems.

Coulomb explosion