Lithium and Water

[Littlecrewmember]

You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby

[DontShaveMe]

I came here from Nirvana ;P

[MrExcopy]

and they say that what is safe.....

[DanielTseng100]

LIKES A MARIO VS DONKEY KONG FIREBALL

[Stevobulfer]

This is sodium... Lithium doesn't catch fire on its own, but I could be wrong

[ms63129]

@oregonisboring Lithium in medicine is part of a compound and has already reacted. Same reason why people use a compound made out of poisonous gas and reactive metal (sodium chloride aka salt) on their food with no ill effects (aside that from excess sodium intake).

[dakanister23]

This is definitely a physical reaction

im soo smart lol jk

[improvised239]

looks like a screen saver

[gigilimesh]

The half life of francium is only a few seconds.

[amaturechemist777]

@gigilimesh actually the half life of francium is 26 minutes

[Asmodi666]

id love to see francium :D

[Ibeatyou23]

Li + H20= LiO + H , so hydrogen is the fuel, oxygen is present, but where does the heat come from to make fire? lol

[Asmodi666]

@Ibeatyou23

its 2Li + 2H2O -> 2LiOH + H2

the enthalpy should be around -600 kJ/mol whats enough for letting the H2 react with aerial oxygen

[bombikid]

would it work with a lithium battery?

[miles305678]

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!!! o_0

[theassortedjellybean]

UHH SCIENCE MAKES ME SO HoRNy!!!!

[xxmannylee1992xx]

Dude try Francium, I don't know where or how you get it I just want to see it explode!!!!!

[WackyWadslow]

@xxmannylee1992xx Francium is the second rarest naturally occuring element, after Astatine.

20 - 30 grams exist at any given point in the ENTIRE Earth's crust. Good luck finding it! :D

[xxmannylee1992xx]

@WackyWadslow So your saying there is a chance he could get it :D

[WackyWadslow]

@xxmannylee1992xx A chance, yes, but not a very good one :P

[gothgirlie1]

FIREBALL POWEERRRR!

[Olivian600]

ohhhhh SHIT !! it`s a fire balls walking on the water !! GEEZAS :)))

[theboyzable]

where did you get the lithium?

[Samv100able]

It didn't explode

[cybercrashx]

It reacts with H2O and get Hydrogen, Which aids and creates the burning flame.

[frohman101]

No, some people seem to be on psychiatric pharmaceuticals here, what you take is most likely a harmless lithium salt, probably as chloride or carbonate so it won't harm your intestines. I remember we have powdered lithium in our lab, but the pentane evaporated and now it's only a bunch of white lithium nitride, what a shame how much money got to waste because some jerk didn't close it properly.

[DrMario2007baka]

Lithium will combust - it just attack Oxygen atoms in water molecules - all it take is little bit of heat, which it will get by attacking Hydrogen first.

[playtapus]

use potassium it turns pink

[biscutness]

my science teacher made the mistake of putting potasium with zinc in water at the same time and they came together and exploded and water went everywere and was drippin of the roof n shit happens now i want to know were u can get K and Zn from

[PKJowker]

I don't get it? All youtube videos but 1 show lithium catching fire, but all scientific internet articles say lithium only fizzes, doesn't combust like sodium. So what's going on?

[evansp12]

This lithium sample is in a form of powder (though loosely clumped together). The powdered metal has larger surface area than the compact metal and so reacts more violently with water. Powdered lithium is rarely encountered by most people.

[fubleduck]

@evansp12 I womder if lithium can be good as solid ramjet fuel, as it appears to be the most energy dense in both volume & mass. It's reactive to both air & water(as indicated here), & another vid seemed to indicate incomplete combustion. So it's hard to tell.

[squalea]

Lithium seriously HATES water.

[BlackDongs2Dextreme]

so this is safe to give to children?

[boubou099]

dear santa, for christmas i want... 250 grams of lithium.

P.S i am not naughty

[JayAbbott123]

@boubou099 buy some lithium batteries and extract the lithium outa them, each one takes around 10 mins to pry open.

(you will have to get some mineral oil to store it in, aswell.

[snipesnrifles]

did this experiment for 8th grade today yea.....our teachers guna totaly flip out cuz we used the moto safty third

[MTown701]

that is awesome!

[J3ngl3f3tt]

isn't that sodium?

[evansp12]

@J3ngl3f3tt No!

[nickrohn93]

@evansp12 Now you need some beryllium.

[batistaker123]

@J3ngl3f3tt dude sodium has a huge explosion we did it in our science class lol

[DesmondHsu]

@J3ngl3f3tt LOL, i think the title says lithium......

any element in group 1 would does that.

[cod4madass]

@J3ngl3f3tt it is sodium lithium just produces carbondioxide

[sniperpistol50]

@J3ngl3f3tt sodium would just explode like a friercracker

[starsky1012]

@J3ngl3f3tt With sodium, an explosion would occur.

[wb5rue]

@J3ngl3f3tt Sodium would have produced a yellow flame, this one is more red so it's lithium

[Gunjanamoli]

you mean Potassium and water

[UnpredictableProduct]

@Gunjanamoli no, he means lithium and water

[raccoonkidd]

i wanna throw it at some one!

[1x93cm]

they want to put lithium in the water now....

[o0benja0o]

and I use this as medicine?!?! 

[soundspark]

@o0benja0o Do you eat salt?  It's made from sodium. The medicine you take is a "salt" of lithium, which does not react.

[lancerralliartist]

@o0benja0o yep.. and soon and trace amounts in drinking water already., doctors should just prescribe heroine.

[Eistea1]

@o0benja0o

it isn t dangerous in little pieces

[AntiRacismAndHateCom]

@o0benja0o My guess is you are using lithium ion (Li+) which is more stable.

[MeiWatashi]

@o0benja0o Lithium is also used in batteries.....your medicine is batteries too XD

[fartinthewind13]

@o0benja0o And I use this in my RC plane?!?!

[ninjadumps]

@o0benja0o I assume you are kidding? No one uses elemental lithium as medicine... they use a salt of it.

[ShadowSerris]

@o0benja0o Just don't take it with water XD

[Samarka600]

Throw some Caesium in there, far more fun! It may also take your face off when it explodes.....

[bicshyboy]

That's how you make fireballs.

[sploggon]

They want to put Lithium in our drinking water! Lol.

[SargentandGreenLeaf]

@sploggon yeah, your drinking water bro, im on a well, only the cities get supplied with water like that, and we could use a fuckload less of those city folk

[mydawgsbeast81]

@SargentandGreenLeaf lmao

[gehtomacgyver]

lol i used lithium oxide with un tarnished lithium place the lithium oxide in the metal balled it up put on table like 5 sec and burst into flames

[pinkpunk2k9]

on my school the flame was purple and it exploded onto the floor it starter to make tracks it was soo cool lol:P

[gehtomacgyver]

thats K lol aka potassium

[BlockerOfBlocks]

Kewl.. :o

[wrpiam]

i just hadatest on this. all the alkali metals( the ones to the far right of the periodic tabe) are highly reactive. lithium is one of them.

[nascaracc2009]

@wrpiam The alkali metals are at the far LEFT of the table ;)

[WhatElseExceptNature]

I am going to have a test with it soon.

[KE5HOB]

Technically, only as you get to the high number periods in the group of alkali metals do they become "highly" reactive. Lithium is least reactive, and Francium is the most. Just felt like being a douche.

[kjhausmann]

DancingAdditiction had it almost right...

2 Li + 2 HOH (water) --> 2 LiOH + H2 (gas)

so yes the lithium is replacing the H+ ion of the water.

What remains in the end is a basic solution of LiOH

[LedKenji666]

@kjhausmann

its 2H2

[kjhausmann]

@ledKenji666

count again.

Each side has 2Li, 4H, 2O

Since 2H's are in the LiOH then only 2 are in the H2.

[pathos6296]

fail

[c0ldelement]

@kjhausmann "2 HOH (water)" thats not any water Ive drank... dont you mean 2 H2O

[KryptonKyote]

as you can see Lithium kept it's exact shape right from the start, it's just smaller.

[slipknot1566]

cool an explosive toy boat thats like 3000* farenheit :)

[c0ldelement]

hardly 3000 degrees

[slipknot1566]

i dont know for sure but it burns very hot

magnesium burns hot too but idk about lithium

[c0ldelement]

well its starts to burn off its own heat and uses the hydrogen being produced to keep the flame going.. its not extremely hot

[slipknot1566]

ya i wasnt positive so thanx for teaching me :)

[skunkfusbiggestfan]

looks like pong

[1SMGFAN1]

good 1

chem rks

[DancingAddiction]

Does the Lithium replace the water?

[72EDELWEISS72]

vive le feu! vive le feu! vive le feu c'est beau !

[titan371]

o so is this lithium as the one on some batteries or not??

[randomboy64]

i want to do tht experiment but with 2kg of linthium and drop it into a tub of water 2 miles out, with a RC Crane...BOOM!

[cloudtheavenger]

you have to be a chemist or something you can't just get these into your houses any normal way

[22matt19]

everyone this could easily be lithium ive done a lithium and water reaction that has spontaneously combusted before

[Frresh123]

this is lithium because it has a black tarnish and it did not melt from the heat with water.

[tomer945]

soduim dude

[deathhacks]

um i beleive u mean sodium

[GJP8888]

A small clump of lithium metal powder reacting with water with hydrogen formed burning, together with the metal.

[kreacher420]

Does anybody know what degrees this burns at?

[meza365]

@kreacher420 uhm i think at around 1400 F

[SonamyChao]

This is why Alkali Metals are awesome.

[TheEsseboy]

@SonamyChao Alkali metal is boooring...lithium can burn,explode and get really really hot :D Akali metals contains 5-7times less power and do not burn ass well as lithium and akali metals can also poison you :O

[petpowerma]

@TheEsseboy

Lithium is an alkali metal and it is not the strongest of them cesium is.

[snipesnrifles]

@petpowerma thought francium it

[petpowerma]

@snipesnrifles

true, but francium is highly radioactive so you can't really do this experiment with cesium you can.

[Legoking45]

lol i love how all the alkili metals do that :)

[thevideo112]

IM MELTING!

[krs100cp]

we did this in science, its so awsum but we used a massive bowl xP

[lethalben1]

we also did this - but ours didnt set on fire

[animalresercher]

that because they use other alkali, lithum doesn't set on fire, altho it did cause coughing, sodium (below Lithium) more quicker and causing spark, but didn't catch on fire, now K (I don't know how to spell potams-whatever) set on fire faster than you can say Gurgi (Gur-gi, he is my favorite character in chonicals of Pyraid)and the rest I don't know

[Voodoomancer]

What?

The vid's cool, but i found in it Related Videos with a Dimmu Borgir song... how is this related?

0.o

[TheSittingArchitect]

hahaha me to

[diplord]

me and a friend got some lithium out of a battery today. if you put a alot in, it explodes :) only a little but , lol

[pyropakman]

Nurdrage fan?

[11to]

why did it burned and can you keep it in regular food oil(fat)

[Rethary]

it burns because it is making a lot of hydrogen and heat

yes, it reactants to water only

[furiousharry]

i've done that but im not sure if it works because small bubbles rise from it, i think it takes the oxygen from the ester bonds in the oil

[pyropakman]

Lithium is a strong reductant, and reduces the positive hydrogen in water to neutral hydrogen gas. Since lithium is lighter than water, it floats. The redox reaction releases a lot of heat, so some of the lithium exposed will heat up enough to react with atmospheric oxygen.

[oldclassicmovies]

You're an idiot.

[scozzahisee]

Nice video. Where can I buy some of this?

[HaydenPK]

just get it out of a lithium battery. it works quite well.

[scozzahisee]

thanks i never thought of that. I will give it a try.

[HaydenPK]

remember to use it quickly or put it in paraffin oil, though. i left it out overnight and it didn't work in the morning because it had oxidized.

[lasergeak]

I spray it with WD40 soon as I get it out

[forgotmypassword3]

are you sure that this isn't potassium?

[HaydenPK]

he powdered it, that's why its so violent

[forgotmypassword3]

I like the change.

[126mx]

that was sweet

[MrDrummer95]

I cut a lithium cell battery in half and threw it in water and nothing happened... Am I doing something wrong can someone help me please?

[fencinggearhed]

what may have happened is that the lithium metal had already oxidised and ig that happened then what it shows in the video wont happen(the same thing happened to me with a lithium polymer bat)

[maxyevs]

there are several different types of lithium batteries, most do not have elemental lithium but rather lithium salts... but like the ones used in cell phones or laptops do have some and you can set them on fire fairly easy because lithium is so reactive

[dhwanitchem]

Lithium Emmision is red not orange! ORANGE IS SODIUM !! LITHIUM DOES NOT CATCH FIRE ON ITS OWN

[maxyevs]

i think you are right this does look very sodium-like... most times lithium in water does not spark the hydrogen

[KEngel1021]

I was thinking of the same thing. I have put Lithium in water and in Chlorox Bleach. Lithium would not normally get hot enough to melt from the reaction.

[Snorkelsson]

are you talking about pH?

[dhwanitchem]

nope!

[polarspirit]

just cut a battery into half you get lithium+1, just use that, its very reactive. But warning, use glove, the liquid of battery is very poisonous.

[mwahisgoed]

hehe i still have a lithium battery ad home:P

[Hedgeweed]

Great video. Thank you. More violent than sodium in water - more like potassium. What I want to know is, why it potassium chloride good as a salt substitute, but not lithium chloride?

[maxyevs]

really? sodium should be more reactive, i think that he just used a bigger lump of lithium than sodium...

lithium salts are toxic to the nervous system, they decrease noradrenaline and increase serotonin... thats why they are sometimes used as medication for maniacs.... or bi-polar bears

[Hedgeweed]

Thanks, that's interesting. Serotonin affects mood, doesn't it?

[0Krusnik0]

Yes, serotonin affects mood.

[fencinggearhed]

no lithium is more reactive because it oxidises faster than sodium which makes the oxygen in the water get ripped away from the hydrogen causing more heat and a more violen treaction cuz more hydrogen is getting burned in the same amount of time as the sodium would take to burn less

[maxyevs]

why would it oxidize faster? it has higher electronegativity... if you look at most videos where they use lithium then sodium, sodium is usually more violent

[WeedWizz]

(Royal Board of Minds¤)~~~~~~~~~~~~>

[saren1994]

It's a little piece of magnesium?

[1234567awsedr]

is'nt lithium what they give crazy people

[Snakez19]

yeah, for poorly understood reasons, its moderates mood swings, but if it does the job, who's to complain?

[inukai132]

Lithium Ion, (Li-) is what they give Depressed and Bipolar people. Lithium Ion is perfectly stable while Lithium (Li) is absolutely unstable

[lukasz089]

Ion is Li+, absolutely not Li-.

[jazzmonkeycarpet]

uh. no. lithium is a metal and a NAME for an anti-depressant. not actual lithium I believe

[furiousharry]

it has lithium in it thoug

[jazzmonkeycarpet]

Idk it might but I dont think they just take lithium lol

[furiousharry]

lol its not just lithium but its in a compound or somthing

[Benji550]

lithium, the element, is both in this video and used to treat depression caused by lithium deficiency.

[furiousharry]

u sure we need lithium? cos i heard that it isnt needed just alters moods

[Benji550]

My mistake for not being clear enough, it is used to treat mania and depression in bipolar patients. No you do not need to ensure you get a sufficient amount of lithium in your body in order to avoid depression. In fact some studies show that depression was never caused by lithium deficiency. However, reading this may give you cause to contemplate killing yourself.

[combo360]

so THATS why

i took out lithium off battery and spilled it in my pool by accident and it starded a spark and me and my dog were like wtf

[XplanetXcazmoX]

lmfao DOG

[combo360]

well yeah he started staring at it and started barking in fright

[Nickoss99]

lol combo360 ur comment made my day :P

[fencinggearhed]

thats hilarious

[CocoChanelParis15]

thats a big fake

[hyoukitsune]

chemistry, actually.

[Keepupsodapushing]

it's just the reaktion between lithium and water(h2o) and what the ending product is.

[AsSomedayItMayHappen]

So what would happen if you dropped a cinderblock sized piece into a swimming pool?

[swdiva24]

DO IT OMG I WANNA SEE THAT SOO BAD +D

we dumped a hand sized chunk in the river and it was SICKKKK. =D

[xOnyxTheHedgehogx]

SMOOOKE ON THE WATER

The fi-ah in teh skiez.

[ryanfenimore]

kool i love putting alkaline metal in water.

[fer123456789nando]

Every alcaline metal do this effect?

[adamtequalsgreat]

yep. the farther you go down in this group, the bigger the KABOOM!!

[stevenscottoddballz]

Could you tell me what the following is called, & what the arrow represents, PLEASE?

2Li + 2H2O -> 2LiOH + H2

[hattsoffboysfarm]

i know that its 2 parts lihium, and 2 parts hydrogen and oxygen. im pretty sure its lithium oxide, but you would need to check.

[adamtequalsgreat]

this is a balanced equation. this means that two lithiium atoms react with two water molecules. the arrow means that they form something. in this case, they form lithium hydroxide solution, and hydrogen gas.

[stevenscottoddballz]

GREAT! Thank you SO much! I couldn't remember "Balanced Equation"! Thanks again!

[Kazuma331]

well, the arrow represents a chemical reaction and it means 2 Lithium atoms and 2 Hydrogren dioxide molecules react to create 2 seperate molecules, whereas one is 2 Lithium Oxygen Hydrogen molecules and the other is dihydrogen.

[stevenscottoddballz]

OH! Thank you VERY much! I had trouble remembering that! I'm going to KEEP this one in my YouTube Inbox! That way, I'll have the explanation & the experiment! Thanks again!

[12345678now]

Where can i get that stuff! lol awesome

[matoy77]

Now you have lithium hydroxide,

cool vid.

[nerdinus]

YAY NERDS

[Khronnus]

I vote we make him eat it.