Making table salt using sodium metal and chlorine gas

[@snosibsnob3930]

I was running out of salt, and needed some for eggs. Thanks!

[@dubbleyou248]

Lol

[@shaynaemery2493]

Lol

[@fadhlihamid1446]

Lol

[@meinjunge2605]

@@fadhlihamid1446 Lol

[@spiderman9676]

Op

[@frederickfugglesworth9877]

Sodium just looks so satisfying to cut. I don't know why.

[@TheDeadMeme27]

it feels illegal to cut a metal with a knife lol

[@Mn-Fe-N]

Honesty, it is super satisfying 😂 If you ever have a chance, you could try it

[@conlangknow8787]

Satisfing to chew

[@ATLTraveler]

You should feel what it's like to cut the cheese for me

[@RadicalCaveman]

With that white rind, it looks like cheese.

[@GuyFromJupiter]

I've always loved that two extremely dangerous elements could be so harmless when mixed together.

[@mel816]

On the other hand, you can also have two harmless elements (carbon and oxygen) combine to form something dangerous/deadly (carbon monoxide)😮

[@aqeel6842]

@@mel816 Pure oxygen is dangerous, I still see your point though

[@tradersendeavors]

no, enough salt and you will hurt your health

[@mintakamothkind]

Nitrogen, which makes up most of the air we breathe, and carbon, which is also quite harmless and inert, combine to form cyanide

[@masacatior]

And probably the only danger would be on Na2O and NaOH contamination.

[@agent5657]

i bet your neighbors think (oh god hes makeing meth again)

[@HentaiNat]

or they just don't give a fuck. gg, Redstoner.

[@liamwhatever7146]

[RS] agent 26.exe redstone I’m wondering how many times he’s had the fire brigade called to his house.

[@BenjaminGoose]

You bet they think what?

[@ruthwik4052]

Yes

[@juvnchy]

makeing

[@cupofcakee]

this is such a trip now that I’ve seen your newer videos. I can’t believe you used a jagged chunk of broken test tube held on with a metal clip to do science. absolute madman

[@Someone-ig7we]

"absolute madman" is just so cringey now idk

[@jeiberry]

Nowadays he's saving his absolute madman-ness for nileblue and I'm here for it

[@vincedibona4687]

@Someone-ig7we Saying “cringey” is absolutely cringe-inducing. Always will be.

[@1cheeseisawesome]

hmm, this seems like a lot of work. I just go to my friend's house and play a couple games of Smash Bros. and I get enough salt to last me a couple of months.

[@RickJohnyALL-PROProcue]

hahahaha

[@Robbievigil]

bruh, lol.

[@K1N5L4Y3R]

You should try league of legends, the salt will last a few years and you will make a profit selling it too.

[@elon6131]

K1N5L4Y3R xD

[@sheogorath979]

You should try Elite: Dangerous, the salt you'll get there will last you a couple of lifetimes

[@hawks1ish]

4:47 this is going to get used as the thumbnail for a bunch of pseudoscience listicle "10 horrifying effects of radiation" videos overlaid with a crappy photoshopped radiation symbol

[@tailsdblack463]

Lol

[@grandmasterjayd1184]

“Mad scientist creates Sodium Chloride! 😱😱” Actually dude, it’s salt.

[@AdityaKantKushwaha]

Yes

[@hughsgarbagetrucks]

The head line : person makes deadly sodium chloride a almost dies The acetal : dude it’s salt 🧂

[@robertcece6972]

That last reaction is sodium, sodium hydride, sodium oxide burning in HCL + CL2 + O2. It's important to note that HCL gas is also lighter than CL2 so it pulls the CL2 out of the container unless it's cold. The final product is probably chloride, oxide, hydride, hydroxide.

[@Auriam]

perhaps that's why he didn't dare to taste it.

[@DANGJOS]

Why hydride??

[@Teth47]

Sodium Chloride is water soluble. Why bother scraping it off? Rinse it off and recrystalize!

[@vigneshsenthilnathan3207]

He might have a reason

[@lucianonarno1408]

Because if any sodium metal is left, you’ll get fire/an explosion

[@robertgardner7470]

Check ph because of residual acid.

[@BackYardScience2000]

In such a finely powdered NaCl, the elemental sodium content would be negligible. If anything, there might be a tiny, barely detectable whirl of smoke when added to water. It is the chlorine contamination that he is worried about.

[@BackYardScience2000]

@Johnson Adam , recrystalizations in water. Chlorine will dissolve into the water and evaporate as it is boiled off.

[@jaylane7027]

Literally all chemistry teachers: Sodium is very reactive. Chlorine is also very reactive. Don’t mix them, you will die painfully. NileRed: *makes big salt explosion*

[@desperatepsycho]

@Bill Howitzer YUM YUM DUST

[@desperatepsycho]

@Bill Howitzer McDonald's cocaine

[@desperatepsycho]

@Bill Howitzer doing cocaine in McDonald's?

[@karrinechiu5397]

While my chemistry teacher just put (around) 5 gram chunk of sodium into water because "It's less reactive than Potassium so let's try putting more"

[@temmietemmieson6756]

@@desperatepsycho Rather sugar than salt, there’s more sugar than salt in their food.

[@kieranodea771]

It's not just edible salt, it's vital to your life. Makes chemistry really seem crazy when you think of it like that

[@eier3252]

"I think I added a _little_ too much water." **BANG**

[@MadScientist267]

Uh.. *snap* but ok lol

[@smritichaudhary608]

Exactly 😂

[@Nepulk]

With the sand method, coudn't you just dissolve it in water, filter the sand and then boil it so you have pure salt?

[@Slaave]

That's exactly what I was thinking. Salt is water soluble, sand isn't. Perhaps he's wary of unreacted sodium from reacting with the water?

[@Nepulk]

Tophat Mike Oh yea didn't think about that, but you could filter the NaOH with a precipitation reaction I think.

[@origamigek]

+Nepul K But NaOH is very soluble right? And even if you were to add a salt that crashes out the OH, you'd still have the sodium salt of the leftover ion.

[@Nepulk]

origamigek Maybe calculate how much mole OH you got, then add the a salt which gets rid of the extra sodiom ions which is the same out as the amount of mole OH. if you then boil the water it should leave you with pure table salt right? It could be totally wrong I'm just freestyling over here.

[@oceanjunkie5968]

+Nepul K Yeah but then you just have recrystallized sodium chloride. He wanted the product that came out of the reaction originally.

[@Metaphix]

you made a metal halide bulb!

[@GunsGuy1990]

It's more a sodium-vapor lamp :)

[@rich1051414]

Exactly the same color as sodium vapor lamps :)

[@TGears314]

Wonder why it's the same color as sodium vapor lamps????

[@TGears314]

I'm kidding btw

[@corysummers3008]

hps, high pressure sodium light bulb.....

[@bojanglesfries]

"Uh no dude, its salt." ~ Skeet

[@Mae_is_gae]

That's what I said! Sodium chloride!

[@poisonpotato1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpusi2R_fKp9hNE

[@SKyrim190]

Ah, I see you are also a man of culture

[@memelox_1705]

Props to the first guy to ever add up two most reactive and dangerous elements and then deciding to taste it

[@OmniversalInsect]

They used to use copper sulfate as a food dye so it probably wasn't too farfetched

[@CountryCowboy008]

The thing is, we harvest them from the sea 😂

[@johncochran8497]

An "easier" method is to take a solution of sodium hydroxide (lye) and neutralize it with hydrochloric acid until it has a ph of 7. Then evaporate the water until you get a solid.

[@vincedibona4687]

Someone doesn’t know salt is mined from the Earth.

[@lawson7899]

mom: omg we run out of salt me: say no more...

[@odskeet]

I like how he just made mustard gas in the first 2 minutes.

[@joshf-o6696]

No, he made chlorine gas. Mustard is a much different but still very dangerous agent. It's called mustard because it's said to smell like mustard.

[@andremarques3317]

the mustard gas was actually the sucessor as weapon for the gas created here, the chlorine gas. This is probably the reason people mistake the two

[@mattk6315]

"turned my Erlenmeyer flask into a lantern" say, that gives me an idea.......

[@stonegolem2001]

+Kid Kirby right?

[@1320crusier]

+Kid Kirby ya know.. like sodium lights.. that inhabit fishing boats, stadiums, and street lamps.

[@EricMcTrainshit]

1320crusier Damn, that'd be inefficient and dumb as hell! XD

[@johnmadden9613]

Sodium lights are a real thing that are in use for real.

[@caspernicus5822]

*buys christmas lights*

[@GrimmsDeath]

I love when things like this exist. Reminds me of water and how Hydrogen and Oxygen are flammable ( get it's not the oxygen but everything else) but combine the two and viola, puts out fires as does table salt.

[@zezus001]

combine the two and *viola*

[@prathamlohia8496]

Well, sometimes waste aggravates the fire

[@iSaac-kp5lk]

You forgot the violin as well.

[@RonWolfHowl]

Not oil fires :)

[@robitaill3]

Rinse the sand/salt mixture over a coffee filter. The salt will dissolve in the water, sand stays in coffee filter. Then boil the water off. There’s your salt separator

[@pushbutton8548]

CRUSH YOUR EXPECTATIONS: This is in no way better or cheaper than buying commercial grade sodium chloride, our objective here is to explore the science.

[@elon6131]

PushButton this is so much better, you also get a temporary lantern!

[@XcaptainXobliviousX]

someones been on a nurdrage marathon recently

[@senvr11]

well, it's true

[@psirvent8]

Or a Atmospheric Pressure Sodium Lamp ! Can you use it to grow weed ? Or invent a new streetlight ?

[@SeraphimKnight]

Sodium street lamps are a thing already, and they've been for a long time. Those light that are very harshly orange-colored at night? Sodium streetlights.

[@jubbardtheflubbard4380]

I remember a chemistry class in high school where me and my lab partner snuck a little bit of synthesized salt from a lab to taste test it. I forget what salt we actually made (it was a biproduct and not the point of the lab), but it tasted just like normal salt. Good thing our teacher didn't know, I'm pretty sure I signed a contract saying I wouldn't do stuff like that

[@chel77j]

I'm sure.

[@ericli9611]

The product gained wasn't just NaCl, But also Na2O2 in both way. Since sodium combusted in the air, it would definitely react with Oxygen. If Na2O2 is dissolved into water, you would have sodium hydroxide in your food and burnt your throat

[@GewelReal]

@@Ignisan_66 but he started burning it in the air

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

@@GewelReal how?

[@MakenaForest]

@@yasyasmarangoz3577 when he made it molten hot before putting it in the chlorine atmosphere

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

@@MakenaForest Thank you, I was dumb back then.

[@ChickentNug]

With the sand-contaminated salt, couldn't he have used water to dissolve the salt and make the more dense sand sink? That way you'd be left with salt water and then you could just get the salt out of that later, right? Or am I missing something

[@oceanbytez847]

this was very early in nile's career and he might have not thought of that.

[@ChickentNug]

@@oceanbytez847 maybe I guess. Even at the time of making this video he was way smarter than I am now, though, so I'd be kind of surprised if he didnt think of this unless there is a reason not to do it

[@danisyx5804]

@@oceanbytez847 now days he washes everything "with a bit of distilled water" lol

[@ipsita1227]

sand may have soluble impurities too , and then it would require crystallisation to get the salt out

[@ChickentNug]

@@ipsita1227 good point

[@jjenson2006]

The stuff that was contaminated in sand, couldn't you have just dissolved it in water, filtered off the sand and then let it recrystallize?

[@jjortiz7504]

That's what i was thinking. Just dissolve and filter.

[@smj_]

Yes.

[@sangeetanarendrasingh5416]

Yes but some small amount of soluble substances are always present in sand. He would get impure salt.

[@MrCh0o]

@ But that applies as much to the scraping as it does to the dissolving, though

[@Headshotted718]

I love your channel, its one of my favorite ones on youtube. I bet the one dislike was from someone who expected that it would actually be a simple reaction that they could do in their kitchen and needed salt lol

[@NileRed]

+Headshotted718 thanks for the love!

[@GhaziSarhan]

the one dislike came here for porn, and was disappointed

[@Headshotted718]

Ghazi Sarhan That's waaaaay too true

[@craiggurnell9192]

Such an awesome video. Shocked by how long the reaction lasted. Would have been curious to see if you put the crude salt in water if there would have been any left over sodium.

[@VoidHalo]

I was just thinking it would be really interesting to see a microscopic view of the Sodium while it tarnishes. I'm curious what would happen to the grain boundaries in the metal. In fact, I think you could probably make a whole series based on microscope videos of various chemical reactions.

[@_Dio_Brando_69]

Most table salts also contain anti-caking agents such as sodium alluminosilicate, sodium ferrocyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate to prevent clumping and to make packaging and transport easier. Salts may also have iodine as an additive to prevent iodine deficiency. Iodized salt is typically advertised/labeled as such and you can read the ingredients on the package of your table salt to see what anti-caking agents are added, if any.

[@azrael6280]

Future Nile would taste that salt

[@rahulg2961]

Ngl I did this in my college chemistry class and our professor has a field day screaming at me as to why that's not the smartest choice. Honestly I guessed it was NaCl but we had other salts we had to test which were toxic.

[@tenebignisgames4926]

"That's what I said, Sodium Chloride!"

[@poisonpotato1]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpusi2R_fKp9hNE

[@tenebignisgames4926]

@@poisonpotato1 Honestly the best reply I've seen to a post I completely forgot about

[@benjaminhackett8896]

Can I point out that you could very easily dissolve the salt and sand mixture in water and pour the solution through a filter to extract the NaCl?

[@benjaminhackett8896]

Watching this again 2 years later, I thought it was a new video and was going to comment “Why not do a water washing?” when I realized I had already commented on the video. Spooky time travel when you think it's a new video! XD Regardless, great video as always. Keep it up!

[@yangvolcanos]

Benjamin Hackett left over sodium that didnt fully react could react in the water and turn into sodium hydroxide which cant be separated from the sodium chloride by just using the filter. either way the product isn't pure and crystallising the sodium chloride after dissolving it just takes too much time and there's nothing new for us to learn from doing that

[@raystinger6261]

Good video! All that was missing was for him to eat the salt he made. Yeah, maybe the salt was contaminated with sand, broken glass, chlorine and pieces of sodium, but he can dilute the salt in water, filter the water and then boil it down to get the salt back, right? (I'm no chemist, btw)

[@HK_808]

Just a little sodium chloride

[@gokinezula1689]

Actually dude, it's called S A L T

[@ashleyallan75]

Big mcthankies

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

:D

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

@@ardijeams3757 German?

[@christiankarambay8963]

Jimmy?

[@sidrad]

Sodium: I explode when I come in contact with water Chlorine: My use as a gas in the first world war was labeled a war crime by the Geneva Conventions Sodium chloride: I make soup too salty

[@shabbarvejlani]

Finally KZbin algorithm is recommending me good stuff . NOT the tiktok cancer

[@toastyeeter]

The combination of sodium and chlorine to form salt is basically the equivalent of 'fuck' and 'hell' to form 'heck'

[@pauls0416]

If you would like to sprinkle it on your food, you could but just make sure the limiting reagent is the sodium, not the chlorine. Also, make sure the source of the chlorine is pure and not contaminated.

[@Asstronut]

You've come so far, this is so wholesome lol

[@banisan2035]

"Fuck, the table salt is empty again. Well, time to get the Sodium."

[@zanpekosak2383]

Bani San Abd pool tablets.😂

[@banisan2035]

Nah, we need pure stuff. We want some quality ass table salt. Gonna buy a tank of chlorine.

[@banisan2035]

You know, the stuff you can murder people with.

[@zanpekosak2383]

Bani San Yes yes! I advise you to maybe try cesium if you want the high grade stuff. And flourine.

[@vipervidsgamingplus5723]

Just don't breath in the gas because you will die pretty quickly if you do

[@larvitardratini5965]

Idk why but watching people cut sodium metal is super satisfying

[@RaExpIn]

This is one of my favourite demonstrations. You could have tested for chloride ions with silver nitrate :)

[@pacmaninfinity4015]

“What, I’m out of salt, guess I’ll just make some”

[@chrisdeglasias]

fuck bro ... i jumped like a cat seeing a cucumber ... damn ..

[@Ubernator]

+Christian Galesias sick bro

[@TheBrassCaster]

This is one reason why I subscribed to NileRed and Cody's Lab

[@TetroLancer]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but when the first batch was contaminated with sand, if its table salt, why couldn't the salt be dissolved in water and then filter the sand out?

[@NileRed]

It could be. But purifying NaCl is not exactly worth the time

[@TetroLancer]

NileRed gotcha but would that not be easier and quicker than going through the other method? was that just for the video?

[@Ravangers]

this is just an example in chemistry, this is not how salt is actually made for consumption or applications. Salt is mined from the earth like other resources in beds that are ancient evaporated lakes or seas, not created chemically, so about being quicker and easier, digging it up is the quickest and cheapest way

[@jmowreader9555]

They don't exactly dig it up: they drill holes in the salt, pump in water, allow the salt to dissolve for a year, pump out the water and let it evaporate in ponds. In the old days before pumps were invented, a LOT of people died mining salt - which is why getting sent to work in a salt mine was a common death sentence. Salt absorbs moisture. If that moisture just happens to be in a salt miner...well, guess what.

[@chemistryguy9016]

+Ravangers it is but the salt disolves from the water.

[@ShihammeDarc]

It's wild how long the reaction kept going at that brightness. I couldn't believe that small amount of material had that much energy to be released.

[@timothytrespas4781]

I enjoy listening to your narration. Funny calming and always interesting I learn a great deal Thank you Keep up the great work

[@jbtechcon7434]

Interesting. A couple of other things you could do with this: 1) Cut a hole in a barrier to pass a beam of the lantern light through a prism and see the yellow sodium lines. 2) Dissolve the product salt in water and check the pH, to determine how much turned into NaCl and how much NaO. 3) Flood your flask and test tube with nitrogen beforehand to displace the oxygen, so your burn will be mostly in the chlorine. If you smell a little ammonia, that was some of the nitrogen reacting with the Na, but there won't be much.

[@LocNguyen-se4ec]

That figure at 6:05. Nile Red, such a Sand Artist, or should I say Salt Artist

[@R2D2xC28]

Imagine the Universe making salt with this two elements.... 😮😮

[@coloneljak42_]

Big McThankies from McSpankies!

[@ashleyallan75]

ColonelJak42 thank you

[@adazhang4793]

Thank u so much for ur video! I grew up at a developing country and chemistry is so bored theory in the book. After I relocate to a developed country and took the chemistry class again, I took a break wanting to see how reactions really worked. It’s so vivid and impressive! Thx for ur contribution!

[@Markcool2011]

If this was Cody’s lab he would’ve eaten it

[@twentytwosticks6531]

Sodium, an explosive metal, chlorine, a deadly gas: together, tAbLe sALt

[@Someone-sq8im]

"Table salt, also known as Sodium Chloride" Subscribed

[@000Responses]

A broken test tube? My science teacher would be triggered lol

[@cmd2tuts]

Hey NileRed, I know this is an old video but I have a request, could you possibly revisit the molten sodium on chlorine gas reaction in the flask, or the 'lantern reaction' as you put it but this time in an oxygen free environment? Perhaps just by placing the string holding the Na on a stopper that is then placed over the flask to keep some of the atmosphere out? The reason I ask is because there is an old alchemy tale about a thing called a 'Hermetic Light', which is essentially a light-bulb created by using what I've translated to be sodium metal and an unknown gas in a sealed airtight container which was said to glow indefinitely(or a very long time) first explored by the legendary alchemist Hermes, when I saw that reaction I could think of nothing else and I would love to see just how long this reaction could be sustained in a hermetically sealed container or if it would work at all. I know, I know, it's wishy-washy alchemy bs... but still. I'd be cool to see what actually happens. Just because these people didn't have the benefit of the scientific method doesn't necessarily mean they where wasting their time 100% of the time.

[@XxI3ioHazardxX]

NileRed: "...sodium chloride." Skeet: "Dude.. that would be salt."

[@tydalwave_]

1:07, just casually making mustard gas in your backyard

[@cartoonchannel7626]

Ww1 ptsd

[@CraigPater]

It DOES NOT make mustard gas mixing solid chlorine compounds and hydrochloric acid or any other acid it creates chlorine gas and some kind of acid in the remaining water in solution

[@CraigPater]

Mixing solid chlorine compounds with hydrochloric acid or any other acid DOES NOT form mustard gas, it forms chlorine gas and some kind of acid in the remaining water in solution.

[@thomas_swede]

The last reaction with molten red Sodium is so beautiful!!!!

[@TrueBlueProd]

I've always wanted to see this reaction 😀

[@Starbuck7410]

If you want to purify it even more you can dissolve it in water and put it in the oven to evaporate the water. The sand won't dissolve in the water, the sodium will make NaOH and will ignite, and the chlorine is a gas, so it won't effect the product.

[@ilhumrahmanpushpita2838]

Why need an electric bulb if u can make sodium chloride?😂😂😂

[@S8tan7]

That's such an extra way of making salt

[@generalchicken3385]

I had no idea sodium was the English word for Natrium. Had to google it since I was sure table salt is NaCl. Apparently it's called Natrium in Latin, German, Swedish and Finnish etc. It's called Sodium in English and French etc. Why the "split" name? Edit: Just realized it's the same with Tungsten / Wolfram. Lots of countries use one of the two names? Quite confusing ^^

[@luissantiago6699]

Pretty cool I didn’t know that either

[@shantanukawale9127]

Would be same for plumbum too

[@eurovision50]

And what's funnier is that tungsten is named in Swedish. It means 'heavy stone'. And yet the Swedes themselves call it Wolfram, instead of the actual Swedish name that's used in English. The Swedes also call nitrogen 'suffocation'.

[@ИмьФамилий]

Kalium/potassium

[@magirl1803]

love using natrium, plumbum, kalium just bc my low iq cannot relate Na with sodium sometimes

[@mikapeltokorpi7671]

We did ammonium chloride at grade school (salt used in salted licorice, banned as food at least in US and Australia). Bit similar, but less spectacular process. Requires ammonia and hydrogen chloride. Flakes of ammonium chloride fell down to the desk like snow.

[@brockm7256]

NaOH + HCl = H2O + NaCl then dry

[@gman981000]

That's boring though

[@chemistryguy9016]

+br m now thats just stupid because my brother almost died by doing that.

[@Swedmonkei]

Well he must have forgot to dilute the acid then.

[@AppulseGames]

Then ur increasing the salt in the experiment

[@swastikgupta1835]

Bro it would contain some amount of hcl and naoh due to equip concept...

[@Scooble-ev9vp]

6 years In the future I'm taking notes on this for school, congrats NileRed

[@eunaekim9216]

They say you can't judge a book by its cover. Well, in this case you can't judge a reaction by its violence!

[@HunterSash]

4:21 The power of the sun in the palm of my hand

[@LuisBorja1981]

Did you check if it was mixed with NaOH probably made from the reaction with oxygen and humidity from the air?

[@donnaperyginathome]

Yes, he should have checked the pH.

[@dudders___1684]

I saw this reaction happen in a class when I was in school, was pretty awesome

[@anthonydavidson6139]

I love your videos man, I’m just wondering where all the salt on earth came from. It’s not like there are chlorine tablets and pure sodium laying around everywhere

[@tripleaffirmative5p]

I mean pure sodium and chlorine gas arent very common NOW, but there are plenty of metal and halogen containing compounds which when dissolved in water, would HAPPILY do double replacement to form water soluble salts and some non water soluble byproduct... or just water. That too.

[@westmarsplays375]

By the way, sodium and chlorine aren't compounds. Instead, they're elements, meaning that they can be found in the periodic table.

[@nienke7713]

Would you be able to create safe-to-eat salt from reacting sodium metal with chlorine gas (on industrial scale), how about reaction HCl with NaOH?

[@pedrovargas2181]

Both methods are far too expensive and dangerous for anything outside of laboratory demonstrations. Table salt (NaCl) is extracted from sea water or salt mines; HCl and NaOH have to be synthesized and sell for far more than table salt; not to mention chlorine gas and sodium metal.

[@ayzack_edu]

Now I know how salt is made! Thank you Kanye, very cool!

[@mexicanmuslim]

Two very reactive Elements when combined can be so unreactive and plays a big part in life.

[@GogiRegion]

(+Draco Pheonix) I mean, it’s a salt. It’ll be two reactive things combined to create an inert substance.

[@Micropterus06]

This is actually a profound realisation

[@batenkait0s657]

when they react they lose quite a bit of energy witch is why it takes things like electrolysis to split them up

[@perguto]

NileRed in 2015: "This should technically be pure table salt, but I'll refrain from consuming it in the name of caution." NileRed in 2024: "SuRe I'Ll tRy mY mYsTEry chEmIcAL mAdE fRoM iNdUsTrIaL wAstE, hUmAn eXcRemeNT aNd sTraIgHt uP pOiSon."

[@Pyramid132420]

Jesus! I was wearing headphones when the sodium exploded. I jumped and nearly fell out of my chair!

[@Ammondn]

That was a very nice reaction you captured!

[@BlackWolf42-]

NileRed and NurdRage are both Canadian, so they must be the same person.

[@RollLandOh08]

+E2qNX8btraQ3zRD6J7fc Half Life 3 Confirmed!!!

[@stonegolem2001]

+E2qNX8btraQ3zRD6J7fc they make me very proud to say i am Canadian

[@TheFishCostume]

+stonegolem2001 Then there's Justin Bieber.

[@stonegolem2001]

unfortunately yes

[@NileRed]

+TheFishCostume Justin Bieber is a canadian hero

[@ThatsWhatSheSaid_80]

It made me appreciate table salt.

[@tedclayton6913]

am I the only one that jumped when he added to much water to the sodium? I jumped like it blew up in my face. lmao

[@esra_erimez]

No, I jumped too. that was a year ago, I just landed.

[@memesandstuff491]

Human primitive instinct, normal.

[@playzx1260]

Back when Nile was in the garage days and having a hard time getting chemicals

[@joshuapatrick682]

So how large was the reaction and when did it occur that created all the salt in our world today so that the oceans are substantially salty, as well as all the various salt mines littered around the globe? That much chlorine and sodium existed at some point? When? How?!

[@the_linguist_ll]

It didn't happen at once

[@scrublord9917]

Awesome video! I really like the way you explain things. Very understandable. Greetings from a fellow chemist in Germany.

[@NileRed]

+Scrub Lord Thank you! :)

[@greengreen110]

sodium: explosive in whater clorine: after ww1 everybody agreed useing this as a weapon is a punishable war crime sodium cloride: put me in your food!

[@Squidbush8563]

I have that exact same table in my back yard. That glass is SUPER tough!

[@bluelichen9696]

I rewatch this just to see the glowing erlenmeyer.

[@pc19937]

Why do I get this in my recommendation 6 years later?

[@justintremblay2318]

can you make sodium metal from salt

[@SlmKBatero69]

You have to electrolyse the molten salt. Google "electrolysis of molten sodium chloride" if you're interested.

[@sylasviper715]

at home yea, its actually not too hard..

[@stefanf4110]

Yeah totally, heating to about 600 degrees and then electrolysing is super easy

[@jmowreader9555]

The way most people do it is to mix carbon black with sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), then heating it to 1100 degrees C. Everything but the sodium escapes as carbon monoxide.

[@pruthvirathod8462]

Take a look at the reactivity series...U ll know why it is difficult

[@mars7612]

We did this experiment in Chrmistry class! With ours, we shot chlorine gas straight at the sodium. We also had a bag of unpopped popcorn suspended above it so it got popped and salted all at once with the reaction

[@x537k194a1353]

try reacting cesium with fluorine

[@cerverg]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/in2yd5SNmbWreJI It's so much fun ;)

[@sigurdbigset]

I just started chemistry class in High School, thanks for making these videos

[@linminhtoo]

why didnt you eat it

[@biodegradable8894]

2015 NileRed: I still highly advise that you don't sprinkle this onto your food. 2024 NileRed: Do you think I should taste it?

[@backtrack5pro]

you could just easily react sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid and then evaporate the water after it neutralizes and you'll be left with sodium chloride.

[@maxbuskirk5302]

Just make sure you have the same number of moles though :) otherwise you might burn your tongue.

[@WeatherCat_TheCat]

We watched this in 5th grade science class!!!