putting a drop of water on SODIUM METAL

[YouAreABunghole]

Ant Warfare at its birth..

[sdrawkcab190]

We need to build buildings out of this shit!

[ScorpioGam3r17]

DAYYYUUMMMMM ONLY A DROP??

[mcavic]

See those little pieces of sodium left over at the end? They'll burn through your skin.

[Andrewterrorist]

Wow WATER CAN DESTROY US ALL!!!

[ibaghot]

damn

[DarthSears]

Is it me... Or did that sound like a Minecraft Creeper?

[UltimateGCX]

there was no 12 seconds.....it just skips straight to 13

[lostship47]

@UltimateGCX Congratulations. You've now discovered what literally everybody who's seen a Youtube video in the past 3 years knows. Do you feel proud of yourself?

[nakawoopahkapooski]

It's potassium you fucking retards.

[bigss101]

@nakawoopahkapooski learn chemistry or shut up

[98JMA]

@nakawoopahkapooski

No . . .potassium would ignite with a lilac flame.

[BigHailFan]

That was friggin' awesome!!

[rhinogek]

its angreh!

[ethanzp25]

try putting sodium and liquid nitrodgen it makes a bomb!!!

[u2santos]

Our concept of "a drop" are frankly different... hahaha

[thegodofhellfire999]

I say we pitch a load of caesium into a marine sanctuary and watch the detonation!

[hetaliafan2159]

@thegodofhellfire999 :D

[VidMasterflex]

Bring on the cesium!

[AgentCROCODILE]

Now try it with potassium metal.

[redjimenez]

if scientist could somehow extract or convert sea water into (pure sodium metal)

then the world's energy problem could be solved by using the heat produced by such mixture rather than using coals and oils!

[iwasapenny]

No, it wouldn't.

Sodium is made by electrolysis of liquid sodium chloride (salt), which you could get from sea water just by evaporating it (sea salt).

But It takes an absolutely god awful amount of energy to make the sodium, far more than what energy is released by the sodium.

[nybotheveg]

@redjimenez thats impossible due to the first law of thermo dynamics. no energy can be won or lost. that means that the energi you get from this equals the amount of energy it would take to create the sodium. except we arent efficient enough to get % energy back from thi

[nybotheveg]

@redjimenez thats impossible due to the first law of thermo dynamics. no energy can be won or lost. that means that the energi you get from this equals the amount of energy it would take to create the sodium. except we arent efficient enough to get % energy back from this reaction (we are on like10 %)

[alesanfarraelino]

el pato al agua y no el agua al pato, solia decir mi profesora de quimica!!

[Basco36]

@alesanfarraelino tal vez el profesor significa anadir acido al agua, no el agua al acido

[wootwootx4]

in chool i like working with potassium

[desireing1]

are you kidding? thats not a drop!

[1Sparkz]

lol



[TheFrenziedPianist]

There goes dinner.

[GingyPno123]

@Basco36 Does it work with Lithium?



[HazMatLabz]

i like how it pops vigorously at the end

[klaymationist2000]

GRENADE!!!!! GET DOWN

[1zacster]

@potassiumperchlorate yeah, working with it is easy if you reasearch a little bit and see how it reacts in regular air, plus i dont think even a moron would hurt themselves that badly with this amount

[felrece]

Hmm... if we have these kind of things then why don't we have water starting matches or something?

[wolffe23]

good flair

[TheYtml]

lol that would be funny if you poured water on table salt and that happened XD

if only it didn't have chlorine with it

[cg1725]

I hope you stepped back when little bit exploded everywhere

[ampeyro]

sodium metal powder with sodium nitrate could make nice red fireworks, or a dangerous exolosion..

[pyrocrazyUSA]

this is seems better than dropping in water

[sliver321123]

That was like 10 drops, not 1.

LIES ALL LIES!

[Sunderland4745]

Dropping a massive block of this stuff into the ocean would be badass, eh?

[bmw2go11]

DUDE!!!

[TillHawks]

XD

no doubt about it.

[dragoncaretaker94]

@Sunderland4745 OMG it would be badass

[spectralnischay]

@Sunderland4745 Actualy that's a common ritual among MIT Students, its called the Sodium Drop, where they drop a bar of metal sodium into the Charles River, producing ignition....

[apard7]

@Sunderland4745 hell yeah...1million dollars later XD

[docterphreak]

@Sunderland4745 There's video of that. Search "Disposal of sodium" here on YouTube; it's pretty cool.

[givebeesachance]

@Sunderland4745

The ocean has plenty of sodium in it already.

[theeb1222]

@givebeesachance

I agree with you that oceans have sodium in them .. but I don't agree that that sodium is just as same as the one you watched in this clip ..

oceans have sodium ions ( Na+ ) which have resulted after the dissociation of NaCl (salt) into water ..

BTW sodium has no effect when it's in ionic form.

[imgodly18]

@theeb1222  faag :)

[RazorRabidz]

@Sunderland4745 try ceasium or francium

[MrDubPro]

@Sunderland4745 id love to see that.

[ManganistanDraselny]

@Sunderland4745 Yes but it would be fun :D

[hetaliafan2159]

@Sunderland4745 apparently, my teacher's friend dropped a huge amount of sodium into a lake, because he had so much. if you go to that lake, there is still a hole, 'cos sodium was so reactive.

[Xaiano]

@Sunderland4745

already been done - youtube.com/watch?v=HY7mTCMvpE­M

[endimion17]

@Sunderland4745 If you were actually there, dropping it, instead of launching it away from yourself, then yeah, it would... if you consider third degree burns all over your body to be badass.

[lostship47]

@Sunderland4745 *facepalm* It's already there.

[AwesomeIsRyan]

@Sunderland4745 francium would be MUCH better. like one gram of it would blow up a town.

[wardino388]

see, i got this massive hunk of sodium in a glass display (about 2 kg) and i REALLY want to break it and drop it in the water, but i'm afraid i'll make my own 1 mile deep crater

[mekloten]

@wardino388 plz do it :D

[CordyBear1]

@wardino388 Record it, too! Awesome things are what YouTube is made of! Well, and what caused my pet gerbil to explode after I made it swallow fireworks... Er, bad example...

[TheSimpsons1488]

where do u get sodium or potassium or cesium or the other one that starts with Ru and F i can get lithium

[22matt19]

if you dont know what there called you should be playing with them especially cesium and "the Ru and F one"

[stevenr4]

oops

[milotickz]

It's supposed to be yellow (the flame). Since the flame wasn't yellow, it's not sodium.

It must be lithium.

[carlsaischa]

Or potassium.

[MrGoogfan]

@milotickz

it is sodium. When it reacts with water, hydrogen is produced. that is what burns

[taliban0king]

just add water!

[rockasskicker]

that would be cool if you dropped that in the sea

[DaLatinB0y]

HAHAHA lmao!! that was funny!

first it goes up in fire then it explodes :p

srry for the childish things...:s

[mickey8643]

try cesium next :)

[MisterPie1]

Let's not >.>

[f16pilot92]

that was more than a drop

lol

cool though

[FlameingKittenOfDoom]

not really,its not the sodium thats odd its the water in my opinion, think about how ironic it is two flamable gasses can create something used to extinguish fire

[jeremiahswee]

oxygen isnt flammable - its a powerful oxidizer

[crazdellyt]

Its pure sodium, not table salt...

[slapytheklown]

Water makes fire.

What a freak of nature Sodium is.

[AdrianayMauricio]

in fact... its not the water that its burning.. its de hydrogen left after the reaction

[orionfwd]

2 Na + 2H2O -> 2 NaOH + H2

[fopeloop]

wtf

[potassiumperchlorate]

It's nothing personaly or something;)

And yes I do know potassium perchlorate is a strong oxidizer, also not a thing to play with.

[potassiumperchlorate]

To use it, I won't stop you.

Could we make this discussion to an end please?

[potassiumperchlorate]

The answer is YES.

[shawnbrown10]

where did u buy that stuff?

[Basco36]

my friend bought it for me.

[potassiumperchlorate]

Be careful, alkaline metals are no kind of a toy, all chemicals are by the way

[jeremiahswee]

uh...first of all, theyre ALKALI metals you dumbass, and secondly, that last part didnt even make sense; "all chemicals are toys" is basically what you were stating from your poorly-grammatical comment.

[Basco36]

lol, I wish I got payed to do that, but i just do it for fun.

[blackdeath567]

omfg u must have the funest job if it is u just playin with all these chemicals acids and stuff making things go boom