Sodium and Water
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Fire! da da da, daa daa FIRE!
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FIRE!! hehe
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Sodium + Water ==== Sodium Hydroxide
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Lol my science teacher loves this stuff. Unfortunately he can't get any more because he caught the ceiling tile on fire.
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@evansp12 why the sodium ball exploding ? because it's very hot? i thought that only the hydrogen.
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2 Na + 2 H2O = 2 NaOH + H2
The H2 contacts with O2 in the air, making fire.
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@ROYBOY322 Lots of places will sell it to you. A simple google search will reveal all you need to know.
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where do you get sodium
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@Darkglaceon it taste like charcoal. He did a lab with this and got to taste the burnt sodium
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What happens if you put it in your mouth :v
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My teacher said that there is a reaction between the sodium and the water;
Na + H20 ---> NaOH + H2
the explosion came from H2 gas, which it burned because of the reaction.
Thumbs up if you're not understand this.
When sodium hydroxide forms from sodium touching water, is the resulting sodium hydroxide forming into a melted state or a solid state?
BenHutchinson1 1 year ago
The sodium hydroxide is in the melted state, which then dissolves in water.
evansp12 1 year ago 6
Why did it explode as it was burning out? I thought it would explode at its hottest when it was burning bright yellow.
BenHutchinson1 1 year ago
I'm not sure. I think it because that sodium hydroxide will actually (according to my past experiments) dissolves explosively in water at a certain temperature, as it has a very strong affinity for water.
Anyone who has better answers, please comment.
evansp12 1 year ago
@evansp12
But what about the sodium oxide from it burning in air? How does sodium oxide react with water?
And sodium hydroxide solution is a cleaning chemical and strong base. They actually make this stuff, and I bet it doesn't involve exploding sodium hydroxide. Are you sure sodium hydroxide blows up in contact with water?
BenHutchinson1 1 year ago
Sodium oxide reacts violently with water, forming sodium hydroxide. Hot, molten sodium hydroxide does react explosively with water.
evansp12 1 year ago