Does Sodium Metal Explode In Dry Water?

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I check what happens when you put pure sodium metal in dry water.

[@johnlumsden9102]

"How does he keep his teeth so clean" is exactly what I was thinking as I watched a beaker explode. Definitely not "How does he keep his teeth."

[@grilsegrils9330]

His hair do sure fits todays video 😆

[@MissMyah37]

😂😂

[@mehrdad4784]

3:55 is funnier.

[@thiagopollo]

Exactly 🤣🤣🤣

[@DANGJOS]

😂😂😂

[@Viki-zo1bc]

"No explosion" Tupppp

[@GeoffryGifari]

on the point of sodium metal floating on liquid water, what if you place the sodium metal at the bottom first then drop the dry water on it?

[@ericpode6095]

When I saw dry water my first thought was "is this a April fools episode?"

[@zeekillgaming9014]

can a person swim in dry water ? if can it, easier or harder to swim in it ?

[@teho1536]

1:44 (literally explodes) "Now this was interesting and a little unexpected; it didn't explode."

[@artstsym]

There's explosions, and then there's sodium explosions. If you're walking away with an intact vessel, it wasn't a sodium explosion.

[@ModernSurvivalSense]

@@artstsym Likely the sodium reduced to a point where the amount in the first explosion was less than the second. While the second explosion was larger, it behaved the same.

[@seedee3d]

@@artstsym 🤓

[@zhongcena]

@@seedee3d 😂 Imagine commenting the nerd emoji under a _science video_

[@abcdqwerty3562]

@@seedee3d Wow, you are so proud of yourself for not knowing middle school chemistry.

[@Switchell2]

Okay but let's ask the real question here: Is lava wet?

[@NTJOSH-eq3gw]

Bro🤯

[@NTJOSH-eq3gw]

Id say yes tho

[@skelebro9999]

Yes. Are you?

[@stevencotton9184]

Well I suppose since the lava has volatiles in it like H2O and CO2 then… yes?

[@vedanthmallem4016]

no. lava is just molten rock. just like molten metal is metal. its not wet.(that is if you will not take it in atomic level). better question is is water wet?

[@johndupont1413]

I’ve learned through experience that sodium and water is one of those outside experiments 😂😂😂

[@i12cu2]

Like toddlers do

[@jwalster9412]

You seriously thought "this is a good idea" and did sodium indoors?

[@adrielburned6924]

​@@jwalster9412he's quoting. 🙄

[@jwalster9412]

@@adrielburned6924 "he's quoting 🙄" Yes I Am.

[@CraftAero]

Going outside was a good idea. Using a glass vessel was a terrible idea.

[@Dr.Niboshi]

01:57"So no explosion" The beaker: 💥💥💥

[@glintongordon6811]

Dry water and liquid nitrogen??? Anyone???

[@c.jishnu378]

Fr.

[@fxm5715]

Freeze-dried water?

[@memejeff]

It would just freeze.

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

​@@memejeff dry snow?

[@memejeff]

@@BenjaminVestergaard Good point.

[@LightBlueVans]

i love that we’ve started going outside for the outside experiments 😋 just wondering how thrilled your neighbors must be!

[@IBM_Museum]

"The Backyard Scientist" had some neighbor problems with experiments in his backyard...

[@spamsquirrel]

They see him go outside with a lab coat and they go back inside 😂

[@rndmvar]

Next video: Is the HOA president soluble in ethyl alcohol?

[@SirThilliomAnimations]

lol, he's gotta get as much outside time in before the houses near him are fully built and neighbors move in and start complaining.

[@oscarnilsson1969]

Fun fact, the paper shown at 6:30 was written by the youtuber Thunderf00t

[@caffetiel]

Gross

[@aelolul]

He's not gross, he's just completely lost his mind in the intervening years. Poor guy.

[@ssj3gohan456]

@@aelolul He already lost his mind by the point he did that research and published, but for such a... person.... I'm still amazed at the novelty and quality of that paper. Apparently you can be an asshole AND a scientist.

[@caffetiel]

@@aelolul nah, gross. It's something I didn't want or need to know

[@kylebowles9820]

Must be Elon fans in here then 😂

[@floorticket]

My dad was in a frat at Cal in the early 60s. They'd snag sodium from the lab on campus, cut notches in the block to give it more surface area, then throw in in a garbage can full of water. BOOM! Outside experiment for sure.

[@EGRJ]

I know someone who stole some magnesium when we did experiments in science class. She took it home, tried to light it on the stove to show to her family. Didn't manage to do it. I've seen their kitchen. She could've easily set it on fire.

[@ThatChrisGuy]

Looks like he used the rest of the dry water to wash his hair 😂

[@JuLian-cq2qv]

get the slow mo guy on board. This is beautiful

[@Namse21]

“I know what you all are thinking, How I keep my teeth so clean” ??? Nobody was thinking about your teeth lol

[@bakedatbeen]

I mean I think I *have* noticed his teeth white sometime before but not particularly in this video or that moment lol

[@miladeskandari7]

That was an example of what is called "a humorous link" in the business.

[@6ic6ic6ic]

I'm only here for the teeth.

[@fxm5715]

@@6ic6ic6ic Hell, yeah. I'm all about James' teeth.

[@reidolon]

Speak for yourself.

[@SloverOfTeuth]

"I know what you're thinking - what happened to my hair?" ...

[@Fleischkopf]

"nothing is happening. that is the worst thing that can happen." - action lab 2024

[@josiahct]

If it's less dense does that mean you wouldn't be able to swim in it? You know what you must do.

[@i12cu2]

It's also powdery. So maybe you can walk on it...

[@dominicfindlay]

There is a thing called aerated water, it's used in water treatment, I guess to separate the 💩 out. You can't swim in it, you will sink. The density of the aerated water is low so the force of buoyancy is not high enough for people to float.

[@leonszegedy]

I don’t think you should swim in dry water if he was making a gas mask to I believe keep out the powder he added to the water.

[@StuffandThings_]

@@dominicfindlay Aerated water can also be highly dangerous, even for boats, IIRC occasionally this can occur naturally though underwater volcanism and hydrothermal vents

[@Nachiebree]

​@@StuffandThings_yeah a magma block under a water source makes downwards bubble columns

[@Franklin-jj4jz]

This is a three step reaction, all three of which are very energetic. In the first stage, sodium metal initially reacts with the water until it becomes molten. During stage 2, as a hot fluid, it will react violently with fumed silica in a thermite type reaction, forming elemental silicon and sodium oxides. A third reaction sees the sodium oxides react with the entrained water forming sodium hydroxide and hydrogen. Place a lump of sodium in dry fumed silica and remotely initiate the reaction with a propane torch. You will be surprised at the ferocity of the redox reaction. No water needed.

[@DANGJOS]

Do you know of a video or paper on this?

[@Franklin-jj4jz]

@@DANGJOS Personal experience.

[@DANGJOS]

@@Franklin-jj4jz Well if you ever do make such a video, I'd love to see it! Safely of course

[@jskelton25]

I don't see the third reaction producing hydrogen tbh. The first will definitely produce hydrogen.

[@Franklin-jj4jz]

@@jskelton25 You might be right. I googled it and found conflicting reactions. One school of thought says that sodium peroxide and water form NaOH and oxygen. A second claims that the products are NaOH and hydrogen peroxide. Either way, the third reaction is spicy.

[@CZpersi]

6:14 Hey, Thunderf00t's science paper😀

[@curtdammit]

That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time

[@laierr]

@@curtdammit He still making videos. Still on his Musk-boys basing crusade. Which is sort of sad.

[@kindlin]

@@laierr There's a lot of material to work with.... But it got old a long time ago.

[@laierr]

@@kindlin I know, was following him since the dawn of KZbin, when he was had his epic clash with Hovind and VenomFangX. And tbh, I learned a lot from his approach. And got really interested in biology thanks to him. But when you get his approach, when you understand his line of thinking... all you left with is rather boring and toxic rants of the guy enjoying him being the smartest kid in the room. I have extremely mixed feelings about that guy.

[@Skyblade12]

@@laierrIt doesn’t help that just because he’s smart in some areas he thinks he’s always right about everything.

[@praveensagar3529]

What happens if you freeze dry water

[@benjaminbrown3939]

Snow

[@Electrical.Perspective]

Dry ice genius

[@Electrical.Perspective]

Dry ice

[@DoljsSon]

​@@Electrical.Perspective no.

[@chickenosaurus_rex]

@@Electrical.PerspectiveDry ice is CO2, genius

[@Fouss_8]

1:59 "lets try again to make sure its not a fluke" come on, you can say that it was fun and you wanted to see it again

[@jurjenbos228]

Any more Lock Picking Lawyer viewers here?

[@MeppyMan]

@@jurjenbos228nothing on 1

[@JohnDlugosz]

6:12 You show the paper by Philip E. Mason, also known as Thunderf00t here on KZbin. You really should mention his videos where he explains the Coulomb explosion, and link to his alkali metal explosion videos in general.

[@aukir]

Came to say, "I think I've seen that paper before..." :)

[@anthonyward8853]

I wish Thunderfoot would do more experiments like that instead of constantly ranting about Elon Musk.

[@volvo09]

This was a good one, interesting result, especially the first run.

[@יניבלוי-ל3פ]

is the explosion caused your hair style 😉

[@vernonzehr]

Oh lord... what happened? Not sure it's scientific but that happened to me once when I let a girlfriend cut my hair.

[@bloodysmurf]

Is James slowly turning into Nicholas Cage?

[@DarukaEon]

In a cooking class: "Teacher, I blew up my water."

[@douglasharrington3003]

Heavywater vs sodium

[@DANGJOS]

That would be expensive

[@anhondacivic6541]

@@DANGJOS and nothing would be different compared to normal water and sodium

[@abishekkarthik9603]

Ambatublow😩 ahh explosion

[@vinijoncrafts2882]

That shameless plug is pure gold lol

[@Xeonerable]

I just assumed it was the constant shockwaves from explosions blasting the plaque off his teeth

[@brave_ulysses5958]

“There are inside experiments and outside experiments. I learned a long time ago, sodium is an outside experiment”. I cracked up up at that point and had to pause….

[@brave_ulysses5958]

OMG! “I know what you’re thinking. How does he keep his teach so clean?” I love it!

[@ModernSurvivalSense]

It exploded both times?

[@morphles]

Thunderf00t research mentioned! :)

[@DemolitionManDemolishes]

Does it count as a citation tho? 😁

[@orbitONhigh]

i wish he go back to posting stuff like this instead of elon rants.

[@morphles]

@@orbitONhigh indeed :) But well the horse is still not dead so...

[@DemolitionManDemolishes]

@@morphles Yeah, he farms so much angry elon-stans engagement, it makes it financially insane to talk about anything but musk.

[@hgdolder]

When Thunderf00t met The Action Lab.

[@phorced8585]

hey looks like u made a semi controlled sodium rocket integzas next project??

[@BrandoOrSomething]

I learned something, and its that Hot Water is water on steroids.

[@4MB1T1OUS]

3:17 "I know what you all are thinking 'How does he keep his teeth so clean' " Nah bro, that's just you

[@WestonNey3000]

Last time I was this early I ended up with twins

[@NotZhino]

damn ☠☠

[@mitth_raw_nuruodo]

HUH??

[@zenvio]

awesome

[@shemidreamer8701]

Ayo📸

[@αβγδε]

He fine as fuck XD

[@DeadJDona]

2:34 vacuum chamber!

[@olorinistar9903]

30s in, my hypothesis is no, it won't react because it never makes contact. But if the coating is not complete and it can make contact then yes it will. I will be interested to see sodium in ice (what I thought this was going to be when I read "dry water")

[@iamgreeenyy]

"i know what you all are thinking, how i keep my teeth so clean" i underestimated bro's humor

[@jerry2357]

You should have pointed out that the paper by Mason et al was initiated by work done here on KZbin by Thunderf00t, a.k.a. Phil Mason.

[@aSphericalCow618]

The hair, the baggy lab coat, the double explosion - this is the day we'll remember that AL went from wholesome science explainer to mad scientist.

[@josephpaulduffey873]

"I've also been prepping my hair with dry water 🙇👹". 😂

[@amaccoy]

Ok, who else came here mostly to find out what the hell dry water was?

[@stratblacknosugar.5125]

Half the country didn't vote

[@jmr]

I figured we'd get a constant sizzle till it was gone. Seems more like logarithmic growth.

[@spamsquirrel]

BOOM! and Seagull diarrhea is everywhere 😂 Awesome reaction 👍

[@markedis5902]

This ‘dry water’ that you’ve invented seems to have no purpose except to make a mess. You should work for a children’s toy company

[@josephwalsh988]

This dudes hair looks like he ran a 100 yard dash in a 90 yard gym.

[@DETHdressedInRED]

New SpaceX rocket fuel just dropped. Dry water and sodium.

[@juangoyeneche7304]

I always wandered why your teeth are so white. I thought it was a camera trick or cgi. Now i know.

[@JohnAltenburg]

A New Hair Style! I Love It.

[@mcrekkr]

6:25 That's from Thunderfoots paper. He's a scientist who also makes KZbin videos

[@PKFat]

>Yes, water can be wet. Don't get me started on that. O I think I want to get you started on that.

[@michaelcarr5053]

Definitely should do a collaboration with The Slow Mo Guys.

[@TheBooker66]

Really interesting experiment I've never thought about. Good to see you're still rockin' your old video style, contrary to a lot of youtubers who change their style on a whim.

[@adayinthelife5496]

"There's inside experiments and outside experiments"... This is a good physicist.

[@chamary_tv]

This is not dry water. Dry water is H30, and electricity doesn't go in it

[@kavinesh_the_legend]

2:18 What teachers think when we see girls in school

[@kavitakashyap75]

What about magnesium? Would magnesium burn in dry water?

[@BigyetiTechnologies]

Smoothest transition into sponsorship ever, 😂

[@mooing_cowmilk]

But it did explode the first time just not as big.... 1:44

[@thepurplejar]

The best part of this video is The slow motion explosion of sodium.

[@AlexW-]

Generally, dry water is something different .. Maybe try that too

[@NotZhino]

heyyyy firsttt

[@knightsoalarts6264]

It was a nice experiment thanks fella

[@copraphagous]

Quote of the day: "Ok, something happened that time."

[@karthikkeyansmk2727]

What scientific journals or website you prefer 🌱

[@NeilCrouse99]

What's even better to watch is first by pausing the video,(space bar), right on the explosion, (2:47). Then move one frame at a time,(comma [ , ] for back & period [ . ] for forward), to see the reaction and it's AWESOME...

[@metern]

The dry water probably wasn't dy enough 😁.

[@CED99]

"Nothing is happening" Hold my beer

[@TechnoBeehive]

made me think of the marshmallow man exploding in ghostbusters.

[@Reivivus]

That experiment looked pretty violet to me.

[@peterawaits28]

3:11 that’s exactly what I was wondering 💀

[@richardsymes1844]

Does dry water stay fluid when frozen?

[@Zomboy4313]

I always wondered how you kept your teeth so clean, thank you for answering

[@Eggplant-l7p]

4:22 no way the toothbrush has airplane mode 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ItsThePirate]

Yes, water can be wet. Don't get me started on that.

[@EGRJ]

Are you a bot?

[@ScarletSaysBaba]

​@@EGRJdoesn't seem like it

[@amecarethqc6652]

Ahh yes, basic laws of chemistry to tell me how to burn water

[@_Ciosu..]

Is blender really gonna work ? Damn..

[@gulllinlin]

بێزار نابم لە ڤیدیۆ و زانیاریەکانتان زۆر سوپاس ❤👏

[@fardinhasan2947]

0:06 i need explanation. Why is water wet ?😄

[@akahelpwttubers]

Because it is

[@dontlookatmypfp5722]

If there's dry water, why is there no wet water? Because regular water is wet water

[@stevenprentice8240]

I still feel like water is not wet. But it can make things wet

[@cheesejoe222]

Him "Water is wet" I will beat you

[@nickireland6980]

You should make a video on why water is wet

[@roshangupta672]

Feeling bad for that camera😂😂😂

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

Cool video, James, thanks!

[@AdrianV91]

it's the hair that bothers me rather than teeth ;D

[@Derekzparty]

I assumed for his pearly white teeth he simply got real close to the beaker and smiled as the reaction happened.

[@JaceLn]

Please do this experiment with Oobleck

[@squarerootofscience1847]

Yo that slo mo looks like a movie shot fr

[@bagnon]

Does Coca-Cola have better properties than plain club soda?

[@xhaidendsouza7380]

Try sodium in oobleck!!!

[@staywithmeforever]

Honestly I never thought of your teeth

[@clywat57]

I love watching your videos. I'm glad you moved this outside. And I'm so very happy I'm not your neighbor, hahahaha! 😉😁

[@hello201014]

I think the first explosion created micro cracks that were small enough that the glass didn't break. But the 2nd explosion made those initial cracks propagate till it fractured

[@mfsamuel]

Can you do this in a vacuum next?

[@westonding8953]

My thoughts too!

[@glintongordon6811]

Can you have dry water ice?