A piece of sodium that lived in a test tube fell in love with a Bunsen burner.
"Oh, Bunsen, my flame," the sodium swooned. "I melt whenever I see you!"
The Bunsen burner replied, "Calm down. It's just a phase you're going through."
Sodium and Bunsen Burner Love
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Explain Bear
Listen up, buttercup! So, sodium is a metal that melts super easy when it gets hot. A Bunsen burner is something that makes fire in a lab. The "phase" the burner mentions? It's a play on words. "Phase" can mean a stage of love, but also a "phase change" in science, like when something melts! Get it? Probably not, you're kinda dumb.
Cosmo
Not only that, he gets really excited, but unfortunately you can quantify how excited he is. And he is a soft metal that reacts very easily.