Watch the explosive reaction of sodium metal in water, captured in mesmerizing slow motion. See the intense chemistry unfold ...

The reaction starts less than a millisecond after the metal droplet, released from a syringe, enters the water. After just 0.4 ms, ‘spikes’ of metal shoot out from the droplet, too fast to be ...

Watch the Reaction This video from Foresti's research shows a reaction between a particle of metal sodium and a water droplet. The two particles start off separately and slowly move toward one ...

Sodium would react very quickly with water to produce hydrogen gas in an exothermic reaction (a reaction that transfers energy to the surroundings). This would happen whenever the cutlery was put ...

Researchers led by Pavel Jungwirth have now turned this idea on its head by reacting water with a sodium-potassium (NaK) alloy to produce a metallic water solution. To do this, they first had to ...

Watching sodium react so violently with water might just put you in the mood to get in on this action yourself. That’s understandable, but probably not a great idea.

No chemical reaction demonstrates this better than what happens when sodium and chlorine are combined (Figure 1). 1. Two deadly chemicals can react to form one that is harmless. Sodium is a soft, ...

The other hydrate, with 13 water molecules for every sodium chloride, might be found at the bottom of the oceans of the icy worlds, Dr. Journaux said.