Making Sodium Metal

[cataclysmicnothing]

Sodium is can be so overreactive sometimes. Phht.

[CapitanoGUC]

wow - did he die ???? :-O

[FrankfurtNewComerRap]

isst du das jetzt ?

[Duedzz]

And that ladies and gentlemen, is how you make super bacon.

[fkazuo24]

Wow! The sound of the reaction at 1:38 sounds like a plane!

[theminiscientist88]

horrible vid tried it myself didnt work

[Wrestlerdude126]

Where do u get sodium

[nickroselund]

thanks :)

[nickroselund]

magnesium metal or magnesium the vitamen supplament? i looked at your web site but it did not say. in your video the powder looks white thats why i'm asking.

[Nighthawkinlight]

@nickroselund Magnesium metal, check the video description for the chemical formula.

[mafufen]

@nickroselund ignorant magnesium = magnesium

[nickroselund]

@mafufen i'm not ignorant, your an ass. there are many forms of magnesium, im was just double checking :(

[nickroselund]

can you use magnesium carbonate?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@nickroselund No.

[TheCerberusInferno]

@Nighthawkinlight can you use plutonium 239 ?

[DeAtHWiSh441]

wouldnt the sodium be highly contaminated with magnesium powder?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@DeAtHWiSh441 Yes, there will be some magnesium contamination. How much there is is dependent on many different variables however. I have made sodium with this process that has both been obviously contaminated, as well as some that according to it's physical characteristics and reactivity was very near pure.

[MrCant50]

where you get the magnesium powder at?

[Pilotsofer]

IT'S CHEMISTRY!!!!

[nodewuz]

WOODEN TABLE , FIRE , A LIGHTER AND A GAS TOURCH LWTF

[JustMyNightmare]

Hey sorry but. What did u put on the plate?

[dean14111]

you have a lot of videos about sodium metal why do you make so much? please reply.

thanks

[irishfootball011]

where could i get the Mg powder?

[MercuryHatred]

Oh so I should do this on a wooden platform, In the middle of a large plot of grass and next to an ignition source to get the best quality for harvesting Sodium Metal?

I'm totally going to do this at my local park, Thank you! :D

[rusher10891]

Cool

[mah0aga]

we once stole sodium from our high school lab and dropped it into the basin. a finger sized sodíum blew up the front side of the basin.

[videogamemaster223]

well this would be the only useful tut that i found

well also your damned if you do and your damned if you dont

[xZxAlphaWolfxZx]

nothing safer than fire on top of a wooden picnic table

[gamehead91]

My alchemy lvl is at 100

[dakotarulespunks1]

What type of Magnesium? Granular? Oxide? What

[IkickPUPPIES4fun]

What is the usefulness of this. I am not being critical, I just watched all of your trapping videos and that is stuff i can use. What can sodium metal be used for?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@IkickPUPPIES4fun There's not much use for it besides entertainment.

[192asso]

@Nighthawkinlight In the real chemistry is very usefull,surely more than an alkaline metal bomb...

[iToasterman]

@Nighthawkinlight Quick idea... use pure oil with no fragments to controll the fire... you'l have a easyer time picking the sodium from the magnesium. then heat in oil til the sodium melts like nerdrage. it should react better / faster

[vishva8kumara]

@Nighthawkinlight

Sodium can give a gold or yellow color to fireworks

[FALLEROMAYOR]

@IkickPUPPIES4fun Introduce some sodium on water and look =)

[albertorad77]

@IkickPUPPIES4fun I think that this video is a very interesting chemical lession! Sodium metal of course is useless in "normal life" but is used in many factories.

[Humanis1993]

@IkickPUPPIES4fun bombs



[TheTrevster75]

I happen to work with sodium metal on a daily basis. We use sodium to kill PCBs in transformer oil.

[RhinoAts51]

@IkickPUPPIES4fun Science, experiments, etc. Basically can be summed up as entertainment, but if you're dabbling in chemistry you probably like fire and different ways to cause it. I'm sure you can combine sodium metal with other things you've created to make different reactions. Chemistry as a hobby though will probably cause more then one uncontrolled fire your insurance wont cover though.

[fernoGX]

Doesnt combustion with low oxygen generate carbon monoxide? o_O

[DeemotheAtheist]

@fernoGX when you burn a hydrocarbon yes, but not always

[JimBoopLoop]

Nighthawkinlight.. would you agree a sparkler makes a good fuse?

[ejp246]

im twelve years old and i did this in my backyard  -_-

[kzalesak4]

"Inexperienced chemist" LOL NICE EQIPMENT :D

[AsciaBipenne]

Hi, where did you get Magnesium?

[bordom43]

Holy shit!

[nuclear12321]

Is there a way to make it with a liquid? I think it would mix better but is that even necessary? I will not use water so is there an alternative? Please respond, for I am very curious

[sufferingdonut]

lights a fire on a wood table with a lighter and a blow torch on it. real safe.

[skateboy159]

@ 1:36 that what it looks like when my sister is cooking somthing on the stove

[HLiNaKRbCsFrUun]

Where does one obtain the fuse which you use?

[CaptainShmiggles]

So, if what highschool has taught me is correct... You also made magnesium hydroxide, right?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@CaptainShmiggles Not quite. That would be true if this were a single replacement reaction, but it is not.

[oracle2world]

What's next week? Crystal meth?

[RussianKGB00]

Where can u get this stuff?

[Wiintendoh]

add some pool bleach stuff to it and put it on french fries!

[iamheretohelp10]

WTF!!!!

[Nighthawkinlight]

@HP100ify In my yard.

[dmoney10073]

hmm.. lets see how many possable things that could go rong with this.

1. on a (wooden) table

2. next to a butane lighter

3. next to a tourch

4. if the sodium is reactive to the water, how would you put it out?

5. Wax controlls the burning, but dose not actually put out the fire.

So, with this, remember! Dont try this at home kids!

[Tullppa]

@dmoney10073 Na (s) is reactive to water because it has a single loosely held electron in its valence shell. In water, sodium readily gives up the electron in an exothermic reaction: Na (s) + H2O (l) --> Na+(aq) + OH-(aq) + 1/2H2(g)rea

Once all of the sodium has reacted, the fire will go out by itself because Na doesn't have any more electrons to donate. Just don't put alot of Na (s) in. And for wax, it's only meant to control it, not stop it. It will stop on its own in time.

[12414666]

Sodium metal thermitr\e basically

[pauls0416]

or, an easier way to get sodium (Na) is to buy pure ingots from me :)

[jcasaubon]

You were clearly not wearing gloves Min 1:22!!!



[Nighthawkinlight]

@jcasaubon Yeah I really don't care if I burn my knuckles, but I do care that my viewers don't.

[jcasaubon]

@Nighthawkinlight a true scientist!

[ScienceTry]

@Nighthawkinlight Wow, but really you should wear the gloves just to set the example ;)

[Ilovelazers]

@Nighthawkinlight So by adding wax, would the Na be contaminated with the wax, making it less reactive? Because when you dropped in the "Na", it look less violent then it normaly does. please replay.

[GrassRootsDIY]

@Ilovelazers It's not contaminated, but it is coated. Mineral oil is better than wax because it is more easily cleaned off.

[feuerwerk1997hansl]

where can i get mg powder.... pelase answer because a make a lot whith magensium and have to shave my self

[iskatelikeanoob]

where do u get Mg powder or Mg in general

[uniteordie1]

@iskatelikeanoob You could order it online at unitednuclear com

[bazu91]

Now drink it.

[flirtybirdy69]

i like how you do it on a wooden picnic table next to the torch. 

[assasinman98]

Would it be possible to use a substitute for magnesium but still yield the same results?

[assasinman98]

Is it possible to use a substitute for magnesium in this to produce the same result?

[MrToastOmnomnom]

what is sodium metal used for? o-o

[savageboy1000]

this is THE BEST THING EVER (you can burn it 2 times) awesome

[xCelsius451x]

Great video! But are you doing this on the street?

[JakeFuckingAlvarez]

arnold palmer can. Ohyoufancyhuh?

[cskalle1213]

 :D

[Lyxbyxan]

How do i make pure sodium out of sodiumchloride?

[FlashXX97]

I love how it burns in water.

[rangelluis2]

Fairly crude process don't you think?

[ZombieSurvivor214]

YOUR NOT WEARING GLOVES!!! 1:49

YOU LIED TO US!!!

[MourningStar13666]

we will make sodium metal, we will make everything metal. blacker than the blackest black times infinity.

[SuperAngelofglory]

u can use iron in stead of magnesium

[lilshu1990]

You can boil the impure sodium metal in xylenes with a magnetic stirbar yielding small pearls of ultrapure sodium

[HLiNaKRbCsFrUun]

Alright, I know this question has been asked a hundred times, but I must ask again: Can NaOH be substituted with KOH?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@HLiNaKRbCsFrUun Yes

[AssassinOfTrolls]

@Nighthawkinlight Wouldn't you get potassium metal then?

[nicktohzyu]

@HLiNaKRbCsFrUun then you don't get sodium u get pottassium instead dude -.-

[HLiNaKRbCsFrUun]

@nicktohzyu Obviously...

[TheWolfster001]

Old video, but, very cool... ... ...

[Niniar1]

What is that for a wax that you melted and do we need it to make Sodium?! I thought we just need Mg and NaOH?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@maxinpains Any racist comments on my videos will result in a block.

[acx01bc]

I think you made Na2O because sodium metal most burned in air ... ;( The thing you get at the end is not so reactive, try with pure sodium (with 1gram not 20 !)

[NoGoodNamesIeft]

O______________O

DID U SEE THaT WATER IT WENT LIKE PWUSHSHSAJKFSUIOdhJASFK

[N1ghtStalkerNL]

@Nighthawkinlight just wondering but... if there are verry small traces of sodium in those ashes arent they supposed to oxidise nearly instandly?

[zach49899]

Why does the magnesium displace the sodium? Doesn't the displacing element have to be more reactive than the element it displaces? Sodium is more reactive than magnesium, so I don't understand why this works.

[Nighthawkinlight]

@zach49899 It is not a single replacement reaction. The Mg steals the oxygen from the OH group, freeing both the Na and the H. It does not replace the sodium.

[zach49899]

@Nighthawkinlight

Thanks a lot; I get that now.

[jerryiscountry185]

now make me some CRACK!



[97dkb]

this might be a stupid question, but is there any way make the hydrogen metal found on jupiter?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@97dkb I have not heard of 'hydrogen metal', but to make solid hydrogen is absolutely not possible to do at home. I don't believe it has even been done in a laboratory setting.

[acebulf]

@Nighthawkinlight It has, it's melting point is 14 Kelvin. And the experiment was actually done for the first time in 1899 by James Dewar!

[iNFamousAAC]

@Nighthawkinlight I think what he means is that in jupiter, the pressure is so great that it can compress hydrogen gas into a liquid and then a solid, which is a metal.

[DreamPharaoh]

@Nighthawkinlight When any gas is super compressed it will form into liquid and then a metal. I remember ' hydrogen was compressed into a metal-like substance (it was silver-like) , and I believe helium was as well. I am too tired to look it up being almost 5 AM and finally feeling tired. You are right that you can't do this at home. You would have to go through some major crap to do this at home, if really dedicated, although it could be done if you had the money. Thank you for the video BTW.

[nicktohzyu]

@Nighthawkinlight its metallic hydrogen not hydrogen metal. in this exotic form of matter, (and it has been done in a laboratory setting) hydrogen donates its electron similar to sodium in a metal, forming a ionic lattice in which the +ions are fixed but electrons can move freely. hope this helps

[mimdotcc]

@Nighthawkinlight He means the hydrogen in Jupiter's core, which is under such a high pressure that it acquires metallic properties.

[a2zhandi]

@mimdotcc interesting. I went completely in the wrong direction it seems.

[a2zhandi]

@Nighthawkinlight maybe the metal referred to is palladium. Palladium stores hydrogen. Up to 900 x it's volume I think.

[Mjolnir258]

@Nighthawkinlight I think what 97dkb is referring to is metallic hydrogen, look it up on wikipedia.

[DontTreadOnMe476]

@97dkb Extremly High compression, like millions of psi high. they have done it in a lab using lasers to heat it to such a high compression.

[97dkb]

@DontTreadOnMe476 thanks.

[Cruiser052]

@97dkb The metallic hydrogen that is in Jupiter's core Is a function of pressure. If the metallic hydrogen were to be removed from Jupiter then it would rapidly (explosively) expand into a gas.

[LordMagnus007]

@97dkb Hydrogen metal on Jupiter, has been made in a lab, but it is when hydrogen gas is compressed under incredible pressure, it's not stable, and immediately reverts back to gas when the pressure is removed.

[SuperAngelofglory]

@97dkb yes in Diamond traps but you need 30 000 Celsiud temperature and some 3000 000 atmospheres pressure! if released into the air, this kind of superhot liquid hydrogen would make the Hiroshima bomb look like a match spark

[felineboy]

@97dkb You'd need a tremendous ammount of pressure (as in the core of Jupiter) and as Nighthawkinlight said, I also doubt it has ever been actually created in the lab, but rather it has been theorized it would have metallic properties because of its atomic configuration. In any case, it would cease to remain a solid as soon as the pressure is released (I don't think by lowering temperature alone it could be frozen into a solid, but I might be wrong here)

[Baked4lifeProduction]

Ok so u light something basicly on fire on ur WOODEN table.. nice. very smart.

[StevenPourciau]

What do you do with it, like, what is it for?

[AntoDamicoShow]

How do you dispose of that water? Isn't it illegal to drop down a drain

[gangstalicious2012]

i have those bowls!

[FrozenHaxor2]

I wonder if it would work for KOH to get potassium :)

[MrStryker777]

what happened to your thumbs finger nail !! :D

[Runningonbrains]

Can the same thing be done with potassium hydroxide to get pure potassium metal?

[MrThespecialOne7]

just asking is that pure Na because they was a Mgo i know this is solid

[Liquidman555]

hey does it work the same with aluminium or what else could I use instead of magnesium powder cause I cant source any thanks

[averseset]

Arnold Palmer <3

[65LB]

Had to go back to be sure, but you say that pieces of Magnesium not sodium metal can be found in the ash.

[suductivepreast97]

Gloves all the way through apart from when u were shaking the on fire pan

[acearms]

Lots of smoke and mirrors. How to make sodium metal from sodium powder. Gee!!!!

[mewrox99]

You have such an awesome backyard

[sqwach]

Yea, i love how he did it on a wood table near a propane tank and a lighter

[MOSTWANTED417]

just saying, there was a propane gas cylinder beside the burning pan.

[poopless3]

combustion? or decomposition?

[danold06]

1:23 u realy use ur gloves the whole time dont cha

but it was cool

[bas12345654321]

is this sodium metal or just NaOH reacting with Mg ?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@bas12345654321 Sodium metal.

[belleepoque777]

epic

[rolingpingu]

Is it normal that magnesium POWDER actually looks like flour rather than magnesium?

[98JMA]

Ok . . .does the magensium reduce the NaOH?

[Nighthawkinlight]

@98JMA Not in the typical sense. Check the video description for a like to my website which details the reaction further. Also, check my channel for an updated version of this video.

[khaledelmansoury]

@98JMA @Nighthawkinlight Yes, Magnesium is here acting as the reducing agent. Reducing agents become themselves oxidised, while the other substance, the oxidising agent (NaOH) becomes reduced. I'll write the oxidation numbers of Mg and Na respectively in brackets: Mg (0) -> MgOH (+2) (Magnesium was oxidised), NaOH (+1) -> Na (0) (Sodium was reduced)

[98JMA]

@khaledelmansoury

I assume therefore that other metal powders can be used . . .what about zinc or aluminum or something?

[khaledelmansoury]

@98JMA Just by looking at the electrochemical series table, it seems possible that Zinc or Aluminium can be used as reducing agents for Na+, but I have just tried that in Yenka (Free simulation program for private use) and Zn + 2 H2O + 2 NaOH → Na2Zn(OH)4 + H2, not what you want basically. With Aluminium its 2Al + 2NaOH + 2H2O → 2NaAlO2 + 3H2 again not what you want. Sorry, but it seems that its far more complex than simply looking at reducing/oxidising power like we thought it was.

[ampeyro]

is there anyway to do it with aluminum besides magnesium?

it's cheaper

[Nighthawkinlight]

@ampeyro Theoretically it should work if the aluminum is fine enough particle size to react properly.

[childpredatormissile]

lol at the Arizona tea, that shits good

[musoderelict]

Yeah I did this the other day. Got some elemental Magnesium powder from the local grocer, mixed it with Draino, then tested the result by chucking it into water and getting Draino again.

[Dragonsoft22]

handy for cooking meat! :D

[shapesaddto9]

there sure are alot of birds on your property

[Daltinoloco]

666 likes D:

[Nighthawkinlight]

@Sopkrula First of all, that's my yard, I can do whatever the hell I want there. Second, I'm sick of responding to the same idiotic remarks repeatedly, but I guess I'll do this again anyway, just for you. What do you think a torch is meant to be around? It's a bloody torch, if it couldn't handle some flame they sure wouldn't be very safe to use as intended now would they.

[MrDestructionAddict]

@Sopkrula People like you are precisely the sort of ignorant twazzers who make the world a more fearful and bitter, paranoid place. If you had ANY idea how stupid you sound to even one with such limited knowledge as myself in these matters you would delete your account to hide your insipidity.

[Zeninka666]

2:17

"Thanks for washing guys" wtf? xD

[Hedgehog2292]

yeah...propane tank next to burning pot...good idea...

[docclarke2]

:DDDDDDD im a chemistry student and i always wanted to see sodium metal 

[Nighthawkinlight]

@docclarke2 I have a more recent sodium video featured on my channel, you may be interested in that.

[Hidanchi]

@docclarke2 It sort of looks like tofu.

[stfjoewms]

wow

[kule183]

its on a wooden table.... smart

[Kakevalk]

You don't need Magnesium

I believe melting the sodium hydroxide at 318 °C / 591 K / 604 °F and then passing a current through the solution to separate the sodium ions and the hydroxide ions would be easier.

The hydroxide will form an activated complex of H2O2 (hydrogenperoxide)(if I'm right).

2H2O2 (l) --> 2H2O (g) + O2 (g) which obviously are not dangerous gases.

What you will have left when the reaction stops is pure liquid sodium which hardens at below 370.87 K / 97.72 °C / 207.9 °F :)

[Nighthawkinlight]

@Kakevalk That is true and is the more well known method. More often NaCl is used rather than NaOH because it is not nearly as dangerous. The chlorine gas that is produced is much less hazardous than molten NaOH.