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Sodium metal in water (video)






HumanSymphony

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Nice, nice :D

I've been working on my 4th of July stash recently :whistle:
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Ahhh I love the smell of flash powder in the morning :D
 
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Nice! Man I wish I were going to your place for 4th of July. Although I will be at a lake with about 5 lbs of sodium. Should be pretty fun as well.
 
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yobresal said:
Nice! Man I wish I were going to your place for 4th of July. Although I will be at a lake with about 5 lbs of sodium. Should be pretty fun as well.
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Well from the video I can tell you these are a good deal more powerful :p You don't HEAR these you FEEL them :D I tested one the other day and my neighbor called me and was like "What..... the F***!?" LOL
 
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Man that sounds sweet!, I want. Make a video for us. That would be fun. Maybe tape one to a watermelon or something.
 
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yobresal said:
Man that sounds sweet!, I want. Make a video for us. That would be fun. Maybe tape one to a watermelon or something.
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Way ahead of ya :D Definitely going to be watermelons involved that's for sure ;)

It's gonna be hard to top last year though lol:
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And yes I did blow up that 360 ;)
 
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photonaholic said:
Does that pollute the water?
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2Na + 2H2O = H2 + 2NaOH

The hydrogen gas burns, yielding just water, 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O. That's the "smoke" in the video, it's just steam.

The other result is NaOH, aka sodium hydroxide, aka lye. This dissolves easily in water, Na+ + OH-, changing the pH a bit more basic with the OH-. The pH change depending on relative amounts of water and hydroxide, of course, so not a big change in pH here with a lot of water and a little hydroxide. And the little bit of sodium, Na+, is no different than pouring an equal amount of table salt in the water (we all do this every time we pee, a bit of salt coming out that isn't removed by waste water treatment plants).
 
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wow..
that was very cool.

all those explosions were from just that 1 chunk in the first throw?
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yobresal said:
...Although I will be at a lake with about 5 lbs of sodium. Should be pretty fun as well.
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Five pounds? :bowdown:
That's a lot of Na... I don't know where you get your sodium, but in my neighborhood, this would be worth many thousands of dollars!!! The best quote I got is 125 g for $62!!! I would dearly love to find an affordable source in Canada, heh?
- Robert
 
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Roddenberry I'll send you a PM.
@GordonB- Yep, same chunk getting blasted into the air and coming back down over and over and over. It kept going much longer than the video shows.
 
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