[cannonball]

I regret that my data on hydrides is in a box someplace in the attic. As I recall the reaction with water is rapid but not explosive. I suspect the addition of some other reagent would be explosive. Maybe O2 ???.

[Gorzaloon]

I regret that my data on hydrides is in a box someplace in the attic. As I recall the reaction with water is rapid but not explosive. I suspect the addition of some other reagent would be explosive. Maybe O2 ???.

Hydration of a light metal hydride is exothermic. The hotter the mass gets, the faster it reacts. Runaways have produced fatal explosions. Waste heat has to be removed, even in a continuous metered process.