Lithium and Water

[tangypasta]

Black magic

[pkmmama]

Are you sure this is not sodium??

[freedom0speech]

We should put this in our water supply. You know, to save lives.

[NewBenne]

my teacher mixet about 20grams of this whit some acid and closed the can whit out noticing and BOOOOM!

[spotlightman1234]

how do you get powdered lithium? I would have though it to be too soft to make a powder out of.

[tlhsaglam]

how many weight lithium ?



[elementcollector1]

I am sorry that I may burst your bubble, good evansp12, but I do not believe that is Lithium. Elemental lithium's reaction with water is not vigorous enough to ignite the hydrogen it produces. Also, the flame appeared to be orange, not crimson like a typical lithium flame. So, where did you get your lithium?

[fakiir]

i was totally expecting to hear Lithium by Evanescence playing in this video. i salute you sir for having good tastes and not ruining everything with silly music.

[Rejected97]

is this hot water or cold?

[evansp12]

Cold.

[KinetikPlayground]

flamin like my ass after some mexican food

[kkawecki89]

@SomeKidNamedSam Sodium detonates, but this deflagrades(burns). It does start with a short burst, though.

[lildeviljd]

+ water wait but it went poof and fire cumed out?! fire and water omg its not possible =S i is scared....hlep me

[YouSuck456100]

@lildeviljd some goodies react with water creating a highly flammable gass (hydrogen). hydrogen + the heat generated from the reaction = FIRE! crazy huh?

[lildeviljd]

@YouSuck456100 u said + and = it looked like math i didnt read that sry.....

[YouSuck456100]

@lildeviljd maybe thats the the reason you're so dumb

[lildeviljd]

@YouSuck456100 yes, yes it is...

[zibuggsyhd]

I bought A 2cm cube of this stuff (it's really expensive) and dropped it in a bucket of cold water it exploded into flames in seconds

[dutchelite0]

sperm of satan xD

[islanderpride123]

what would happen if you ate some...

[danksmoka10]

imagine 3 lithium strips and 1 cup of highly flammable camp fuel then add water now thats a fire ; )

[THEJORGE154]

vengo de un top post!

[MegaIdaniel]

@THEJORGE154 IGUAL YO :D

[littlcfresh]

lol water catching on fire

[billdsafdsad]

lol i farted when the fire started :D

[KEwlIEoMAn7698]

Drink it

[pielover8888]

fire on water, awesome to scare a bully xD

[diegotigres95]

this made me miss my chemistry class, and i hated chemistry

[corrytonapple]

Wow, all of that was awesome. First, sizzling, then smoke, then fire, then more smoke! YEAH!

[D1SStRoY]

i've heard lithium and oxygen produce H2O which is water of course for the retards out there who dont now!

[vinceqwerty100]

@D1SStRoY wahts the point of this comment

[vinceqwerty100]

@vinceqwerty100 i mean what

[E90D89]

this is unbelievable...

/watch?v=47-5Baix0Fw

[Cardinallover31]

Li+H20->LiOH+H

[kaoote]

I don't think its really lithium... its rather sodium...

=> fake and gaay...

[elPinkylds]

Lithium is

[SKYLINEman1996]

cool

[SearchInSun]

that shit is crazy! the Li caught fire

[Algoraptor]

Try this with Caesium (:

[fullspectrumrainbow]

oh damn, and i take lithium every day with water. this hasnt happened in my esophagus though, oh wait, that is probably the heartburn i'm experiencing. throw some tums on it and it should feel better soon. toodles....

[AL3Xmotodude]

This is an exothermic reaction, correct?

[evansp12]

Yes.

[MRTOM927]

@AL3Xmotodude well considering there was a fire..

[ImmaDwarfKicker]

@AL3Xmotodude ... yup, hence the fireball...

[AL3Xmotodude]

@ImmaDwarfKicker excuse me if i sounded like a noob. I was doing chemistry homework that day and wanted to study it more.

[ImmaDwarfKicker]

@AL3Xmotodude haha it's cool i do the same thing :] i was just being a sarcastic asshole as usual.

[deadfire18]

@AL3Xmotodude I Have No Idea Why They Created That Word But It Sounds Awesome

[pyronathanpyro]

is this like the lithium from a lion battery or not tahh

[BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@pyronathanpyro Yes, but be careful if you decide to open one. If it shorts out you could get hurt.

[pyronathanpyro]

@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies ok will do cheers ill wear some gloves and goggles and like an old jumper or something to shield me just incase and maybee a fabric apron

[BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@pyronathanpyro I was talking more along the lines of 'If it starts to heat up, dispose it in an open area.' It will release harmfull gasses I believe, and may catch fire.

[pyronathanpyro]

@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies ah ok will i will open one up at like a car park or something or an old warehouse and if it does go funny then ill leave it and run away lol

[Mehma95]

In this experiment r u using china dish if not then which dish??

[evansp12]

No. it's an old metal tin lid.

[BraniusBalki]

Now if you could work something like that into a drinkable cocktail..... Hmmm

[Sheepinator1]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH­HHHH

IM MELTINGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

[flyboyfx]

IM MELTING!

[drsta84]

lithium battery's are used to make speed... thanks for helping drug cooks know more about chemistry.

[lemonsourkid]

That's why you never overload rechargeable batteries.

[hyperbaricchicken101]

Why does it do that?

[lemonsourkid]

@hyperbaricchicken101

Because lithium by itself is decently unstable and it rips apart water molecules to create Li2O and hydrogen gas.

[hyperbaricchicken101]

@lemonsourkid Harsh!

[bazzman7]

I love the sound of it catching fire :)

[joshydoy]

should of sunk it in water you can do that by thowing it in a pool or your bath that u were gonna get into but fuked ur laptop batry then failed lmao!

[MeLoveBonesTv]

I did this before i even knew it could ignite and it ignited and then i needed new pants...

[SpencaDrum]

I have a good idea. Swallow some sodium (not NaCl) just pure sodium then drink water right after you swallow it !!! :) see what happens

[lemonsourkid]

@SpencaDrum Before it reacts with the water it'd probably react first with the enzymes and carbs in your stomach. If you were able to survive that, you'd be throwing up violently.

Just don't eat chemicals guys.

[LlamaStudiosInc]

waste of some perfectly good lithium...

[ZakBoom12]

@LlamaStudiosInc ah cmon! there is more than enough :P

[NightHawk877]

@LlamaStudiosInc Your comment was a waste of time and energy.

[beyondgreat]

I was thinking of getting the Lithium Hydroxide relaxer after watching this. NO WAY

[ScienceGeek36]

take the lithium out of lithium batteries

[bobthebellybutton1]

man these videos r crazy,so much stuff just burns like crazy

[opiatkiinq]

haha thats how meth labs blow up ;-D they mix the lithium with to much water and boom ;p

[hardy619basterd]

Woah xD

[sharks445]

now we know the water is flammable

[sweetgyy]

heh heh i can smoke that

[Scornedbydeth]

Kids, this is why you don't attempt to make meth.

[meteorman96]

that cant be lithium its impossible it would have needed a flame to help self ignition. It was probably sodium that was thrown into the water not lithium

[sk389]

nope actually i did this in grade 9 science and it does self ignite with out a flame

[meteorman96]

i guess its a very rare event for lithium metal

[looolz26]

basic chemistry einstein , or polo i suppose seeing as it's chemistry

[looolz26]

@meteorman96 and why would he fake it any ways?

[meteorman96]

@looolz26 no idea

[Nark717]

that wasnt an explosion....and a piece of sodium that large would have made a much bigger explosions its not sodium but i doubt its lithium either

[herbienbrian]

now thats a hell of a drink!!

[pikapower96]

mwahahahahahahaha!!!

[sethradford]

thats not lithium. thats sodium. lithium dose not birst into flames like that.

[xxbruschix54xx]

yes it does. it is an alkaline metal. all of them do.

[ManamoPrime]

@xxbruschix54xx theres a difference between Alkali and Alkaline. And lithium just fizzles.

[looolz26]

@sethradford its the definition of alkaline metals they explode when in contact with hydrogen

[CallMeMrLennox]

@sethradford sodium is a component of salt retard putting salt in water dusnt burst into flames god damn ur stupid

[KEngel1021]

CallMeMrLennox: Salt is Sodium Chloride a compound but if you put elemental Sodium metal in water it sure does burst into flames.

[hpdchpdc]

@CallMeMrLennox

Stop being a ignorant fag and actually try and learn some chemistry before commenting

[yocbrfool]

@sethradford no thats what lithium loooks like reacting we did it in scinse class

[some5672]

love the exploding sound ;D

[ThePaparas1995]

lithium doesn't explode.

[pyroCHICOb]

it isnt lithium but potassium

[gooshu]

if lithium is so reactive to liquid, then how do they get it into liquid for batteries?

[guyboy625]

dude, not all liquids, only water

....

[albertogaytan2003]

lithium batteries are solid, they have thin layers of Li

[xxbruschix54xx]

there is no liguid at all in lithium batterys

[Acesofrazgriz14]

this so awsome

i put this in my power point for a science project

i better get an A

[cheetawolf]

poof!

[nicktomato7]

Is everyone on these videos a retard? Probably not. Did they pay attention in chem, though? Probably not. Lithium does create Hydrogen gas via an exothermic reaction when it comes into contact with water. If you have enough of it, it'll explode. All alkali metals do that.

[peacerider8]

your right

[11to]

you used a acid

[peacerider8]

no he didnt, alkali metals react like that in water

[11to]

lithium doesent react like that with water. its beacause its powder

[RamziMakkouk]

I love Chemistry!!!!

[loganbob1]

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[Randomness465]

SMOOOOKE ON THE WAAATER

...sorry, had to do that.

[00011theman]

@Randomness465 fire in the sky

[t0mmie500]

@Randomness465 a fire in the skyhay

[ReconSniperGuy]

@Randomness465 and fire in the sky!

[oliski2006]

best way to start a fire if you have water!!! XD

[reviathon360]

Clean Energy!

[vivalaray]

can anyone tell me the chemical equation for this reaction?

[pyropakman]

Lithium Metal + Water---> Lithium Hydroxide + Hydrogen Gas

OR

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

[Eyeling1312]

I thought lithium doesnt have to self ignite???

[Soneclipseredvblue]

Lithium combines with the oxygen and hydrogen is given off, that's why there is fire.

[ilovecar1995]

from where i can get the lithium???

[soggynippleses]

What about the Non-Lithium batteries how about those?

[perpetualdoomsday]

Lithium batteries don't actually contain lithium metal, the contain lithium ions in a solid solution. Remember the flammable sony laptops? that was becasue the batteries were made up incorrectly, and traces of lithium metal inside the batteries reacted with the other stuff in the batteries... fire!

[rdhilliardeh]

The water moecule splits and the products are hydrogen gas and in this case Lithium oxide + heat. The hydrogen recombines with oxygen in the air, to release water vapour into the air.

[rdhilliardeh]

These are all alkai metals which don't occur naturally in their pure form, for obvious reasons. They are silver, soft, ductile metalsall found on the far left column of the periodic chart.

[snoopie1986]

My chemistry professor told me, that in the 70ies or 80ies in Vienna in Austria a group of chemistry students threw more than one kg of lithium in Danube river... the flames were burning untill the Czeckoslovakian and Hungarian border.

[itsadeadmansparty]

Is the lithium you show above, the very same lithium they use in medicine? (Of Course in smaller doses) I'm asking because isnt it odd we use flouride and lithium in medical practice considering how violent they react with carbon 14 entities.

[r0galik]

there is no such thing as "other" lithium. You eat e.g. sodium as salt and it does not react violently with your saliva.

[amdwat24]

you can eat salt because its actually sodium chloride which is sodium and chlorine which would be bad if you put it in your mouth in its pure form

[r0galik]

lithium in medicine also isn't in its elementary form. They use lithium carbonate

[Choice777]

there are isotopes of lithium, which is practicaly "different lithiums" :)

[Afrocanook]

I believe Sodium and water will yield the same results.

[magemager0]

isn't lithium the most reactive element?

[siilkk]

nah, fluorine is

[yawbuStaEsherF]

Francium... It should be.

[MegadethnMetallica]

No,Francium is. Flourine is the most violently reactive element though.

[Disembow1280]

Compared to the other alkali metals, Lithium is the least reactive. After that would be Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium, then Francium.

Fluorine, on the other hand, is a very stable element. On the Periodic Table, the elements on the far left are the most reactive whilst the elements on the far right are the least reactive due to the electron configurations. Scientists don't call Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xeon, and Radon "noble gases" for nothing.

[Disembow1280]

...what I meant was the alkali metals each have the same reactive properties among them, but Lithium produces the least results whereas Francium produces the most.

[perpetualdoomsday]

The most stable isotope of francium has a half life of just under 22 mintues. So it's kinda impossible to ever get hold of. We can only guess francium is reactive due to the way all the other alkali metals behave.

[ubuntututorials]

Alkali metals are reactive because they only have one electron in their outer shell. They really want to share this, and in the process of doing this, they produce hydrogen and heat. The heat ignites the hydrogen, causing the fizzing and visible reaction. We assume francium does the same thing, but it's extremely difficult to get hold of, there being only a few grams on earth at only one time.

[PokefanDP]

This is the best explanation I've read so far! Thankyou so much- I finally understand this experiment! ^^

[pronoobboy]

duh of course it is reactive the americans used it in atomic bombs.....not u know how reactive it is...."BOOM"...

[alexmash123]

what the hell you obivously do not know anything about chemistry of course we know that francium is reactive for the same reason we know that all alkali metals are reactive for the sole reason that they have one electron in there outer shell and as it is a larger atom than lithium sodium etc it will lose that electron even easyer showing us that it will be even more reactive than the other alkali metals. get your facts right before you comment.

[ndawsome]

lol thats sweat

[g0d0fr0kk]

look for united nuclear ... they have everything from aluminum to uranium and zinc

[rockerz360]

oh yes it is!

[zevex747]

Isn't chemistry fun?

I need to know where to get my hands on some raw alkali metals. X)

[DominantdanyRS]

try ebay

[MrGameAndWatch00000]

Try Extracting

[mylifeisdance327]

yush it is :D

[yellowpages67]

Go Alkali metals!

Potassium is fun to put in water, as well.

[cambridgekid07]

i used lithium and fire today its awsome the flame turns pinkish redish it is cool

[NinjaKid3000]

do any of you know where i can get somehting containing lithium becuase i dont know of any chemical stores

[APcaveman]

carefully open lithium batteries with a pipe cutter and rubber gloves. by the way, manafacturing is a federal offense.

[MaestroEmbassy]

Lithium does react like that with water

[mrskellington33]

dont do that with potassium!

[PAQUETpaquetPAQUET]

why??

[mrskellington33]

because pottasium has bigger atoms and reacts much more violently with water.

plus it makes a pretty color ;)

[RubbleF]

cool

but it look like an exploding sodium

where do you buy the lithium??

[evansp12]

It does look like sodium on a camera. However, sodium flame color is distinctly yellower than lithium with no redness in the image due to its very narrow emission from d lines, 589.6 nm and 589.0 nm.

I bought the lithium from Prestons of Sheffield a few years ago, but the company (as far as I know) no longer exists.

[Gerberjuice719]

you get lithium from batterys for like airsoft :D then take it out but they are pricy so id save the money.

[upsidedownsoup]

lets hope a plane carrying the stuff doesnt crash in the ocean...

[Ulti13]

lithium?

looks like sodium.