Sodium and Potassium In Water

[TUAbraham]

Does that mean, if I threw a banana in the pool, would it explode?

[RetroBanana84]

@TUAbraham Try it and see what happens.

[Frenando50]

That probably should have been in a fumigator lol

[LiLxGai]

we did this and the fire alarm went off and my teacher started swearing and shit LOOOL

[MultiGuitarify]

did anyone else notice that the liquid he put the potassium in was green, and at the end was purple :P and don't say I should know why and that was a stupid quistion cuz I'm only 12

[NewBenne]

my teacher put 2 long peices of this shit into acid...... and closed a can of it..... BOOOOOM!

[BluestarTC]

Dang, You have really fun science classes.

[michael19978004]

0:27 I heard a monster

[ArandomNam3]

its always fun to be in science

[BrittnieJacksonIFLY]

we put Na in water at my school and it caught on fire and flew out onto my teachers brand new lap top and melted the keyboard lol, it never exploded like that though

[BrightKnite]

Lol, we did this in my chemi. class and we had like a 4 inch wide, 2 foot tall graduated cylinder that was really thick glass and the sodium actually shattered it and glass went everywhere. NaOH splattered on a few people, not me though.

[123backinyerface]

Its not real science until you can blow shit up...lol.

[RevolverX10]

6 people failed chemistry.

[RainK9]

now make a car that runs with this...

Phh a guy already make a car that runs perfectly fine at normal speeds with ocean water....

[NetonGo145]

Press 5 for Explosion

[megacyril95]

@MrPyroguy1 It goes Purple gay ass

[theskater4life24]

@megacyril95 No dude it burns with a violet flame..

[anonymous96smilez]

our school stopped doing these things when some guy stole potassium or something and put it in his pants and it went on fire -.- dumbasses these days

[mrtotalycoolman]

am I the only one that noticed that the potassium water was green, and after the explosion it was purple?

[pyr0static]

@mrtotalycoolman Yes.

[bizzakfulify]

Ya my cities school district made sodium illegal in our public schools after some kid threw a big ass block of it in the toilet. fuck, i wish i saw it happen

[SKID0121]

fuckin shit

[TheMrTantalum]

oh...we did this in chem. except it was on the school field and we made a mortar sized explosion :)

[MrPyroguy1]

that's not potassium at the end. potassium burns purple.

[Archerxx1]

WE ARE DOING THIS IN CLASS TODAY YES YE SYE SYE SYE SYEYES NE

[vistigioful]

I thought they were going to be in there at the same time.

[Kirkbro44]

WOOOAHAHAHH!!1!1

[u2santos]

lol the scream at 0:19 hahaha

[Wersderbosss]

like natrium its dancing on the water

[TheSteeljuggernaut]

My chemistry teacher put some thermite in a bowl but it reacted more violently than he expected and set our classroom on fire

[jeffshi1345]

My science teacher did this in class for us... 3 times. It was awesome. The first explosion hit the ceiling. And I'm only in 6th grade... Not in high school yet :D

[Fatblob6]

I did that yesterday at school but with a lump the size of a fist :)

[ealvarou111]

@Fatblob6 same but at my school they used one the size of an m&m

[theXartXofXpimpin]

imma get the most reactive metal that you can get cheap an a ounce and put it in a pond see what happens :)

[rotenburk]

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[ElmigoMG]

So heres your Burn energy drink, sir.

[JayseWeaver]

A lot of high schools can't do this anymore...some kid in some state somewhere put a small thin slice of sodium in a drinking fountain, and some kid got his face torn off, and was blinded.

Now we have to use a piece that's like a fourth the size of a skittle.

[MusicRokagal1011]

woah lol

[muhatashim]

Sounds like a total Godzilla in slow motion lawl.

[slimjim561]

the second one turned purple!

[rustyshackleford1996]

@slimjim561 TWSS!!

[slimjim561]

@rustyshackleford1996 wat does that mean??

[chridouk]

now try doing the same experiment with cesium and francium :P

[CapPicard]

@chridouk I've seen youtube videos with caesium in water... yikes!

As for francium, good luck getting some of that. Only 20-30g of that exist in the earth's crust at any one time. Not to mention it's radioactive as can be.

But I think it would make for one hell of a explosion if anyone had that much francium lying around!

[96515325]

how did he caused such a violent reaction? I did the experiment once but not as violent.

[nailer125]

In my school one of the students stole a piece of potassium and put it in his pocket and later on when the oil dried of...... he lost a bit of his leg due to serious burns... what an idiot he was... We still have Alkali metals in our school and they are easy to get to... once the teacher turns then we can reach them.

[ecolinkinparkgirl657]

BOOM!!!! watching alkali metals explode is very entertaining :)

[tjinga2u1]

wow thats a nice amount of energy being released :P chemical bomb xD

[chaoticCaSeY]

That's pretty much all we did in chemistry too!!! :D

[ApocalypticMeatloaf]

i wish in chemistry we could just mess with stuff so i can do that

[MDKriderwessels212]

would this work with a potassium and salt solution, does it have something to do with the electrolytes from the sodium?

[twisterfield651]

Someone put sodium, magnesium, and potassium in water at the same time

[hyrael2]

@twisterfield651 magnesium burn in air if it have a spark and if it's grounded, not in water.

[david1513]

is that potassum nitrate or clorate

[schmelzbrot]

@david1513 It's the pure metal, I think... salts very seldom explode^^

[david1513]

is that the same stuff as baking soda?

[goguda55]

@david1513 Heck no. So basically if it was, when you're making a cake, the cake would catch fire. ya... I don't think so :P

[ikmal017]

thats what happens to my experiment, the teacher was all like *boom!!* back away then O_o

[sonic2005018]

one the best reactions ever

[idonotneedanidforyou]

some pansy screamed.

[gambler86559]

thats great.

[mizzpirate]

we did this experiment at school today..

almost peed my pants coz i got scared and started laughing like crazy :)

[Lazermuffin]

Green

Boom!

Purple.

[Th1s1sR3z0r]

it was a universal indicator :D turned puprle to show a strong Alkali

[hexashadow13]

I wish we did that in my chemistry class :P

[hafizhamza23]

lol we did it in front of the cops. our teacher is so gangster

[xEarlX10]

@hexashadow13 Lol we actually did this in my Chemistry class like last month

[ronritekinamatigai]

@hexashadow13 Lol, we did it. The amount of Na was not so big though.

[giggitygiggitybam]

do both at the same time...see what happens..my science teacher used i think about 2 grams of sodium in about 15 mills of water...it almost burst into flames...

[gryphus1s]

JEEZ! thats awesome

[Jonhny2]

Try powdered potassium + boiling water!

(but remember to keep your distance!)

[NExplosion666]

"...I want that purple stuff."

[bryanalannorris]

ok something i dont get the potassium water went from green to purple what the fuck

[orgminyak]

They had a Universal Indicator in the solution

[killa4eva50]

the green liquid was universal indicator. Green means neutral, purple means strong base and red means strong acid.

[byobilly1]

lol the first scream in slow mo made me laugh

[evilmindhacker]

what if that was on ur drink

[cosminso1230]

ROFL eat alkali metals then drink a lot of water and you go BOOM!!! lol

[chimanruler15]

Alkali metals are so very reactive. DON'T PLAY AROUND WITH THEM.

[AlexanderA80]

Learn chemistry better.

[chimanruler15]

Whatever. I know chemistry because I'm in the freaking course.

[Omarito2412]

hahahahaa

[evilichigo]

the first scream made me rofl LOL

[jtbc11]

LOL the explosion didnt scare me it was the scream!

[dameyou124]

did the water changed colour when it reacted with potassium ? o.O

[niwdoog322]

Yes.

[soundspark]

I think there is pH indicator in the water, which shows potassium hydroxide being made.

[fadam15]

it burned through my friends arm DONT PLAY AROUND WITH IT

[benner2000]

My school forbade pure Alkali metals on school grounds when some kids stole a good amount from the chem lab and put a bucket full over a sink of running water. The water pulled the bucket in and boom goes one of our bathrooms.

[olstar18]

schools out forever my schools been blown to pieces.

[Isabmaku2]

@benner2000

ahahahahahaha

watta legend

[madjimms]

@benner2000 Why do kids always ruin it for others?

[SuperRorylewis]

@benner2000 ha ha you should of vidioed it i wish woz there

[8888888818able]

@benner2000 oh ur cool!!!

[JayseWeaver]

@benner2000 Some kids did the same at another school - except they put it in the drinking fountain and a kid got his face torn off ;/

[primaltagz]

lol @ the first scream

xD

[mmariebored]

I'm never eating bananas with water again!!!!

(jk)

[ongchorcool]

Damn dangerous! and people get blind

[xRockChickRozix]

yeah we learnt that in science the other day because the light is so rbight it can blind you silly buggers

[benner2000]

Probably not this reaction, though the NaOH or KOH formed will.

[michaelLYM]

I think that is more to burning magnesium.

[Sup3rSloth]

potassium turned the water purple :D

[mistermuffin420]

thats the indicator they must of put in pror to the experiment (probably phenolphthalein). the fact that the solution turned purple is the indicator saying its now a basic solution.

[Fizzitfilms]

correct

[PeechyofPeechy]

thats scary

[DHSBandit]

You can actually obtain pure elemental Potassium from bananas by a long strung-out process. Google it...

[skorp1991]

Or you could do something more productive.

[gearxi]

Where can I get Potassium,I was told that it is in bananas,but I need it as a soft silvery white metallic anyone know how much it is and where to find it?Please reply

[lunchbag08]

all you have to do is order it off of a scientific site...something where teachers would order theirs off of. shouldnt be hard to find

[justisanchez]

all you have to do is throw a banana in the water. duh...

[thecoolmex]

Dude i tried that ones and it worked.

I had to go to the hospital because of the explosion.

[mapledork729]

You can't buy Potassium. You need to have a licens etc. This is an extremly reactive element. If you have a licens and buy alot of that stuff you will be questioned by home land security because they think you are making a bomb. Stuff like this is not to be played around with.

[Sebbass69]

1) You do not need a license to buy Potassium metal. Any consumer can purchase it.

2) Homeland Security doesn't care about potassium metal.The amount of potassium needed to actually make a bomb would be absurd. You would need a brick the size of a small car - which would be completely impossible to conceal. It's totally impractical for use as a bomb. If someone wants to hurt people they're going to go for something thats cheap and powerful - Potassium is neither.

[mapledork729]

Noo you do need a license to buy potassium. Because its a highly reactive element. Even on the charts its strong. So thats why when you buy it comes in a bottle soaked in some liquid that wont react with it .__. ask all the science teachers. you need to have some sort of license to purches stuff like this. And if you get a good chuck of it and drop it in a pool it could cause the pool's bottom to crack.

[Sebbass69]

The "liquid" you are referring to is mineral oil or anhydrous liquid paraffin.

And I can tell you from personal experience that is not correct. I have 3 suppliers of potassium metal and I do not need any licensing. And why should I?

"Cause the pool to crack" ? Maybe on the sides.... if you put the potassium on the edge of the pool. The bottom - no way. Unless you have a lump the size of a large table. And even then it's a long shot.

[N123XoX]

it comes in oil !

[ansari0]

nice one....our chemistry teacher told us about this reaction when we were learning about Salts....i soo want to try it :D

[hacker102030]

Mine too :D

[HemGlassBilen73]

my teacher blew up half our classroom when he made a big,big misstake :p( he threw a big chunk of it in the sink)

[niclashbg]

i found you on a swedish entertainment-homepage. amazing videos man ! add some more !