Sodium metal and water

[@davidmcguire6043]

I appreciate that you specified into a lake "of water". Didn't want to get it confused with something like one of those pesky arsenic lakes.

[@NewWesternFront]

or those lake of fires. see em again til the 4th of julieeyyyyyyyyyyy

[@mister_damian]

funny, i laugher. thank.

[@halogeek6]

Or lakes of heavy water.(which terrifying as it is, is a real.thing that exists.)

[@halogeek6]

@@NewWesternFront goddamn you just took my ass back to the 90s. Goddamb I'm old.

[@dirkbruere]

@@halogeek6 Not to worry - all the heavy water sinks to the bottom

[@SDHUJSDI5]

I was only going to watch some guys throwing a rock from a bridge but then I ended up learning about sodium metal

[@jonjon10220]

Wtf same bro

[@pipex677xp]

Same wtf

[@itsjustme.9763]

Ur not alone

[@riley530]

KZbin has a way of connecting people

[@rcevans9652]

Gentlemen, you're probably wondering why I've gathered you today

[@nonurbusiness4157]

1:30 That was so cool how they found each other and then joined forces!

[@tawan_kd]

right

[@Stryfe52]

Right

[@lanceocana9059]

Right

[@holvingar4375]

Right

[@theorangeoof926]

Right

[@rustymotor]

Incredible reaction with that large piece of Sodium, hopefully the pond didn’t turn into Sodium Hydroxide and end up melting all the local ducks into soup.

[@ariesleo7396]

ikr

[@shonenkane]

No it won't make any soup

[@E50AK]

It's a rather large volume of water which is also not stagnant. So, while the overall water might have turned ever so slightly alkaline, but not enough to do anything significant to the flora and fauna in and around the body of water.

[@Mikasks]

The concentration is so low that it would not change anything. Maybe very slightly more basic, but not enough to warrant any change for the living organisms.

[@colemiller6032]

I was more worried about that explosion killing some fish, I think underwater explosions are a lot more deadly

[@sss7656]

DISCLAIMER: No sodium metals were harmed in the making of this video.

[@dismal8294]

It's the water

[@Sandybowls_9001]

But 10 fish were killed for science.

[@jobiplakkajose4555]

They definitely were harmed

[@prameelaprameela6281]

Underrated

[@yakuldscrafter1]

But fishes in the does

[@AdityaChanda-]

literally one of the best chemistry demostrations seen my entire life... thanks sir

[@asdfadfafsdfa]

I would love to see a slow motion close up of the sodium on water. More specifically the ripples the reaction causes on the surface of the water

[@fi-losopher]

You can just slow down the playback speed

[@brfisher1123]

Have you notice the sodium metal get all nice and shiny at 2:09 after you lit off the hydrogen? It's pretty cool to see the sodium go from a dull white ball to a clean nice and shiny metal for a brief moment before reacting.

[@johnandersen3700]

Fish having a lil swim “what the hecc”

[@somesweetguy]

Thank you for using appropriate safety equipment, caution and disclaimer. We all like to have fun, but it doesn't have to cost things you can never get back.

[@paulmoffat9306]

I did something similar, 50 years ago. Back then, 35mm film came in screw top metal cans, perfect to make miniature depth charges. Sodium metal in bottom, with dry sand so it sinks, the cap perforated to let water in , along with a rubber flap to close off the holes as pressure builds. into water, and 2-3 minutes later, boom.

[@rjbond007]

Now Lake fish will turn into that chicken solution 😨

[@DaReelSlimN80]

They're putting chemicals in the water that are turning the freakin fish chicken!

[@pyromaniac354]

@@DaReelSlimN80 sounded like Alex Jones lol

[@sansamman4619]

The world is a cruel place. Chemistry has a dark past. Beware, my child!

[@prahalord]

The concentration of the sodium hydroxide would be very low, considering the volume of the lake

[@laminnabam2752]

study chemical thermodynamic and you'd know that you're wrong here. (No hate intended)

[@nbie4512]

2:44, just wanted to point out that it's not aluminium aluminate it's "sodium aluminate". Anyway wonderful video by the way, this was very informative. Thank you

[@chess-blundermctrashplay762]

Is it Alumunium, Aluminum or Aluminium?

[@ketonealdehyde7862]

@@chess-blundermctrashplay762 Aluminum-used in U.S Aluminium-used in other parts of world

[@nashvontookus7451]

@@ketonealdehyde7862 Aluminum is the correct way tho There's no second "I"

[@q34-q7c]

@@nashvontookus7451 the rest of the world disagree

[@johnnyzsalt5374]

@@q34-q7c Yeah, the rest of the world has to worry about things like clean water as well.

[@justdoingitjim7095]

Back in the 60"s our new science teacher found about a half pound of sodium metal in a container in an unlocked cabinet in our high school science room. No telling how long it had been there and no one knew what was in it (label faded) and it was covered in dust. Our science teacher figured out what it was when he decided to put a small chunk on a saucer of water outside on the window ledge! It blew up, busting out 2 windows in the classroom and injuring some of the students in his class. The principal came running in and after finding out what happened, he evacuated the school. They called the cops and fire department to remove the remaining sodium, which was probably safe as it was still covered in it's liquid. But, it got us out of school for the rest of the day so we didn't care! You just never know what's collecting dust in those old storage cabinets in the back of your class room!

[@Numantino312]

our school got closed for an afternoon while some crystalized nitroglycerine was carried out

[@yogibear2607]

Great job mate you deserve way more views!

[@hemlatavaiddpsbopal6330]

You make excellent videos on chemistry. Please keep uploading more. Thanks stay blessed

[@angelmercado812]

This video will have many millions of views.

[@Daniel-gi3jo]

What are the long term effects on the environment in that area you tested?

[@subratatripathy1358]

Nothing . Sodium reacts to form sodium hydroxide which is used in many drain cleaners and the explosion was due to hydrogen gas which reacted to form water again .

[@JackSparrow-ty6lz]

First read chemical reaction , Sodium form base with water and it diluted in very large amount so it has no effect on nature .

[@chriswalford4161]

Probably not too bad long-term. But it will have transient effects - blast, chemical burn, heat - to life close to the immersion point. I’m bothered about the casual tossing of a block of sodium into the living environment, and that there weren’t any comments or warnings given.

[@E50AK]

The volume of water is too big to have any effects (short or long term). Also the water is not stagnant and has a slight current, which means there's likely going to be no noticeable effects at all.

[@mehmeh1999]

None. The byproducts aren't harmful in the concentrations shown. At best a few million bacteria met their end.

[@nathancloke8970]

I love how the individual parts are almost looking for a way out then, they find each other and try to smash their way out as one.

[@tonycstech]

Fish: Hey they tossed us something cool, lets go take a look Fish no more.

[@chindukurusaisandeep7867]

The delay of showing the actual thing, we came to see in this video(the explosion) won't hurt, if finally we learnt something more than we expected ❣️ Great jobbb 🌟

[@yuihinshi5257]

i love the environment, so do you

[@blase1856]

I Wounder how big that explosion would be if a ship sank while transporting thousands of containers full of this stuff

[@shonenkane]

I'd love to see that happen

[@cocospops9351]

There's a video on here of tons of sodium being disposed of, after ww2 I think. Shot on an old potato camera though but still cool

[@winc1256]

@@cocospops9351 Can you send the link?

[@cocospops9351]

@@winc1256 Sure dude kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@fossufiraito9407]

@@cocospops9351 haha you aint fooling anyone, everyone already memorize the link

[@skylar1108]

This is so authentic and amazing. I love your work so much!!

[@EnergyMaterials]

Thank you so much!

[@karhukivi]

Better to throw the sodium metal into a pond of acid mine water - more energetic reaction and the sodium hydroxide would help neutralize the acid!

[@liquidbraino]

Fish: "Thanks dude, that's exactly what I was hoping would happen. Now I'm gonna write a song about it".

[@shaneclee5512]

Nice work poisoning the waterway with Caustic Soda.👍

[@muhammadkaif3883]

That blast in the end... That was awesome

[@George.Coleman]

Duck: Ooo someone's chucked us a piece of bread **Mmmm nom** What's that hissing noise? ----🦆💥🪶🪦

[@SP4CEBAR]

I love how the small sodium pieces just form a ball and start bouncing around

[@Jxee1]

Lovely to know your polluting water and altering the ph level 👍

[@trionabyrne217]

What kind of water is that?

[@fouranglesquare]

Joe Brv he isn’t polluting my nigga

[@paulopopoto21]

What he did here is not nearly enough to pollute a lake in any significant way, my dude

[@piuxalmario9591]

it will pass for a day or so, it is not deadly.. but if it was a much bigger size then it would have been very deadly

[@returntothetruth1469]

Nowadays on youtube its Hard to Find The Clip which is shown on the thumbnail but i appreciate You included that Clip at the End of The video

[@ashy2020]

Piece of sodium metal = gernade explosion Full of sodium metal = nuke.

[@satyanarayan1978]

Where to get it & its other usages, nice vidro

[@MMAguyAritra]

awesome video with so many informations

[@rishabhpandey4938]

Metal and potassium reacts so vigorous or violent with the cold water. In case of sodium and potassium reaction is violent and exothermic that the evolved hydrogen gas immediately catches the fire 🔥

[@menon_ji4984]

But make the water highly alkaline killing all the living beings in it

[@PeterPete]

I thought the metal is meant to react with oxygen?

[@craigpater6278]

Sodium metal and potassium metal do indeed react very violently with water and may even explode under some conditions, and I do not mean to downplay the extreme reactivity of sodium metal or potassium metal but if you thought that was impressive (which it was) try looking up videos of rubidium metal and caesium metal reacting with water or even better reacting with strong acids, but a word of warning - never attempt to handle rubidium metal or caesium metal and more importantly never attempt to repeat any chemistry videos you view on KZbin of the reaction of rubidium metal and caesium metal reacting with water or strong acids as rubidium metal and caesium metal (not radioactive caesium, the non radioactive caesium) are extremely reactive and react with water even more violently than sodium and potassium, in fact rubidium and caesium tend to explode very violently on contact with water even more so than sodium or potassium

[@neuvocastezero1838]

An apocryphal and maybe dubious tale told to us by our Biology teacher, was that a couple of guys got a hold of a sizable block of lithium, ventured into Lake Erie in a rowboat, and threw it over over the side, resulting in their almost immediate vaporization.

[@porkjuice8073]

50℅ of the viewers are some desperate chemistry students after learning about sodium extraction in lab

[@Boop__Doop]

mind blowing fact you can chew this metal like chewing gum

[@EnergyMaterials]

That would be incredibly dangerous and an incredibly painful way to have a fatal or life changing incident.

[@vonarakasundi8547]

I feel sorry for the fish in that lake guys... but the video was amazing thank you

[@TechJunky777]

Down the KZbin rabbit hole and found this! Nice! 😎

[@trionabyrne217]

2:10 Whoa! That's scientific amazing. 🔬🔬🔬👌👌👌👌👌

[@BeyondThe8]

Big boom in the thumbnail? Yeah I’m hooked

[@py8554]

I am looking for the note saying no fish or any aquatic creature was harmed in the process.

[@skylinecreations.1634]

Chemistry is always a mystery, yet beautiful in nature, how elements react with one another... ❤

[@yoboikamil525]

I propose a new name for solutions. Instead of calling a dangerous solution a dangerous solution, we call it "murder juice" and normal solutions are "wacky water"

[@ozanbayrak562]

Sodium has a unique colour and i like it.

[@al-karimabdulaziz8961]

Really cool but how did the fish in the water like it??????

[@ayushchhikara6001]

4:53 for what you are here 5:15 for what you are waiting for Thanks me later 😊

[@Xcerptshow]

How hard is it to get sodium? (not for explosives but for making hydrogen since that is where vehicle fueling appears to be going) Or what methods are/would be used to produce large scale hydrogen?

[@namibjDerEchte]

Industrially it is made from reacting methane with steam. Even then, direct electrolysis is still cheaper than anything via sodium.

[@AkilaMaruga]

Does sodium metal explode when comes in contact with blood?

[@AkilaMaruga]

For you people who thinks ill do something bad then no

[@AkilaMaruga]

I will just make spear with sodium metal in the tip

[@rithanyaya6271]

@1:39 It reminds me of the old microsoft sleep pattern or that DVD thing

[@hemangmathur2823]

The first time I've actually heard the 'pop' sound hydrogen is supposed to make.

[@mathnerd3197]

Thanku for the beautiful demonstration

[@amveditsbhaswat7900]

I still remember that i threw a big sodium metal in a water jug in my school chemistry lab..... And the whole room covered with smoke :)

[@nbie4512]

Damn

[@shonenkane]

🙁

[@seshdevanandh6769]

im the 1000th subscriber of your channel

[@EnergyMaterials]

Many thanks!

[@AngelofAmbrosia]

The fish in the lake when the sodium metal goes off: 👁👄👁

[@elliesaurusart1202]

I hope there wasn’t any animals living in that pond...

[@parnaviyadgire5149]

That's impossible

[@keatencasanova]

Won't be anymore

[@juanestadian8471]

From Potassium to calcium has a very violent reaction with water on the metal reactivity series. Sodium is second on that list

[@josefmazzeo6628]

There's a somewhat old video on YT of a 1950s film showing many BARRELS of sodium being dumped into a river. Yeah, the Grucci's were orgasmic to say the least!

[@FishKepr]

1947 actually: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3-6haOcfdSpfq8

[@mariogutierrez3432]

So do you think any of that changed the ph of the lake? Just a random thought 😕

[@EnergyMaterials]

May have helped neutralise some of the acidic pollution in the canal.

[@mariogutierrez3432]

@@EnergyMaterials Very interesting i hadnt thought of that.

[@cuebj]

Anyone else think that photo looks very like David Hockney's paintings on the theme of a splash: Splash, Smaller Splash, Bigger Splash?

[@godshandftwfr]

It was worth the 15 seconds unskipable ad

[@ChuckHL]

Cool experiment but how many fish died there?

[@Karryon798]

This is called the art of teaching!! Thanks

[@omegacygnus]

When you eat the forbidden cheese with a nice tall glass of water: 5:15

[@satyanarayan1978]

Nice video, knowledgeable, sodium metal कहाँ उपलब्घ है, कितनी कीमत है, ये किस किस काम आ सकता है बताए

[@tyrone6820]

5:16 ight let’s dip before the cops come.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Just found your channel and subscribed, great content!

[@thecargotsold]

I need some sodium block to do this at my local creek

[@mootpointjones8488]

Excellent presentation 👍

[@savagebros9085]

Fish: *exists* man: *blows up sodium in a lake* Also Fish: “why is it spicy”

[@maimuna9059]

Sodium metal : you have blows up,spicy fish food

[@darkraider8777]

Recommendation?

[@shremp69]

"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today."

[@Atmos_Glitch]

Metal go *_BOOM!_*

[@carrington9542]

Holy crap that was awesome!

[@muralikrishnay2734]

Thank you for turning that lake into basic

[@EmmittBrownBTTF1]

Thunderf00t produced a paper on the nature of Sodium in water explosions, concluding these are coulombic explosions with a rapid exchange of electrons spikes form in the liquid sodium metal increasing the surface area.

[@SoulGarnet]

Its scarry how the subtitles are accurate

[@erictaylor5462]

You can cut iron as easily, even easier, provided you use the correct tool.

[@EnergyMaterials]

Yes, but sodium is a lot softer than iron.

[@akshayv2849]

2:44 is it called sodium aluminate or aluminum aluminate

[@bandanaairee3651]

Sodium Aluminate, NaAlO2

[@cathdan]

Poor fishes thinking that snack is here and went to nibble at it.

[@venkateshp1609]

Why did this pop up in my recommended after 6 years? Even tho I liked it and watched this video 2 times 😂

[@dar2ski309]

I put sodium in my nans pills and she went *kaboom* 😂😂🤣🤯😅

[@santonucci]

I may know someone who did this with a lot more sodium in the Hudson River once? there may even be a VHS recording of it out there somewhere :-)

[@hirozero16]

Fish be like "finally our time has come"

[@trunghungpham9414]

I might be overreacting but doesn’t NaOH imbalances the pH of the lake and harm fishes or something?

[@panama-canada]

Wow sers! That was cool!

[@MelloGee33]

I can just see the Wisconsin Dept. Of Natural Resources agent creeping up out of the woods with a citation in his hands as I toss the bar of sodium into a Wisconsin lake. 😂

[@bliss5522]

Once my teacher dropped two pieces sodium metal inside one of our classmates water bottle and he stirred that thing like a chicken gravy.. Soon after when the bottle exploded he got the best lessons of chemistry from mother nature.

[@dud_0reference-exception]

How much would I need for a chiken drumstick that is approximatly 180lbs? Asking for a friend.

[@joshwhite1673]

So what did that do the the water in the lake? Did it change the ph any? Would that hurt the creatures that call that body of water home.

[@b.s.7693]

Why does the chunks of sodium form a small ball on top of the water ?? I guess it melts immediately because of its own heat production, right?

[@itskae19]

Sooo I tried to look this up, and it took WAY longer than it should've.. but when the metal hits the surface, it releases a bunch of heat, as you know. This melts the metal and turns it into a ball shape. It turns into a ball because of surface tension. This minimizes the intensity of the reaction to make it more stable. Which doesn't last long 😂.

[@就不更新吹啊]

My name is giovanni giorgio,but everybody calls me jojo

[@brad3950]

What would happen if you ground some up and put it in a capsule and swallowed it with water?

[@misspreetysingh]

Wowww Interesting 😊😊

[@nohackjustlag4241]

I love your word magic man

[@KAslashHeart]

This has to be the first time in my life seeing fire burning on fire for 1 second in my life

[@thegaminpianistccc3580]

are there living things in that lake because everything in a 1 meter radius is bound to die

[@andypaskmack9309]

That’s gotta be great for the aquatic life in that pond