Drop a chunk of pure sodium in water, for example, and the reaction is legendary in its violence. As soon as you get that chunk of metal wet, the reaction fizzes and heats up, the sodium bounces ...

Many of us gained our first appreciation for chemistry upon witnessing a high school teacher drop a chunk of sodium into a beakerful of water. You may think you know the explanation behind the ...

I also show a far from perfect extraction process to remove the sodium from the slag. It accomplishes its purpose, however ...

Alone, it's explosive. Combined with chlorine, it's table salt. When mixed with water, sodium reacts spectacularly. The combination produces sodium hydroxide, hydrogen gas and heat (the technical ...

A small piece of sodium metal is placed in water. The sodium reacts with the water and gets very hot, producing sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. The demonstration shown in this video is very ...

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 ...

If it comes in contact with water, it produces sodium hydroxide and hydrogen. Potassium reacts even more vigorously. These reactions unleash a lot of heat, so it seemed straightforward to think ...

Sodium metal reacts very strongly with water. (You may have seen videos where blocks of sodium metal get thrown into a lake, to dramatic effect). Asked about this issue, Chiang says the design of ...