@@SSJ0016 Ah, yes, RU-vid doesn't show those anymore to shelter our fragile egos from the reality of this harsh and brutal world... In the midst of all this bullshit hypocrisy, I want to thank you specifically for your honesty. 😏
So is it the make up of air that makes it this quality or the heat? Obviously heat correlates to density but so can surrounding compounds in the air. I’m sure I can and probably will look it up right after this but if sodium was in a much cooler temperature it would stabilize similarly? (Mainly slightly denser because of it being colder but for the most part the same) or would it resemble other metals?
I do research in Chem and they often store alkali (first group) metals in kerosene (lithium, sodium, potassium). It can be taken off (dissolved) with hexane.
Sodium is a group one metal, and the metals in this group tend to be softer than most metals It can be shaped because malleablility is a property of metals Hope this helped!
@@rondaward1116 I believe that all alkali metals ( the group that sodium is in) are incredibly reactive, though another metal in a different group, indium , is also soft and not nearly as reactive, which you can actually chew, Nile red did a video on chewing it.
This reminds me of my old Chemistry teacher! He's awesome! He showed us sodium metal, submerged in the oil. Told us all about the dangerous reactions with water and air.... While he held the metal in his fingers after taking it out from the oil. He is a fearless Chemist. He retired when I finished grade 10. He was already partially blind in one eye and had his fair share of scritches and scratches from teaching.
Once you reach university level, the fearlessness of the chemists is hilarious. The older professors will tell the student to always wear gloves and lab coats while handling acids, acetone etc with their bare hands. They know what is truly harmful and what will just dry out their hands a little 😂😂😂
In one of my high school chemistry classes we were once shown a video demonstration on sodium - a professor had gotten permission to deploy a fairly large amount of sodium into an acidic industrial pond of some sort with an aim to raise the pH. A few Pringles can sized logs of sodium into the water... mighty impressive display. And then a chunk of potassium... Need to hunt that down some time, wouldn't mind rewatching it.
@@sophroniel Nah water is a compound. It is a totally different substance, it has nothing to do with its constituents element O2 and H2 which has entirely different properties than H2O, that's what a compound is.
@@sophronielDiferent constituents can alter the properties of the resulting element, let me provide a good example: Table salt. Table salt it's made of Sodium, but it's properties cancel and change with the other component to give it its new ones
I remember this going boom during my chem class while I was still in Secondary school. Some dumb idiot decided to put an egg sized alkaline metal in a basin filled with water. Everyone in the lab had tinnitus and the fire department was almost called.
@siyasiya8425 Yup.... it really happened it was one of the three craziest things that happened at the science building that year; the escaped monitor lizard meant for dissection in Biology class (different class) and the.... makeshift mini cannon (also different class)
Sodium metals are kept in kerosine oil because they are highly reactive metal which reacts highly with the gaseous or moisture present in the atmosphere
Bruh I remember my grad chem teacher once was demonstrating crystallization method and forgot she was dealing with sodium and accidentally threw a few pieces off the tray in the sink along with water. The whole sink exploded with splash. (Not harmful just the water was all over the place)😂
@@s3dghostActually, if you put metallic sodium inside a flask full of chlorine gas, the sodium will burn with a intense yellow flame producing white fumes of sodium chloride, or table salt. 😉
We used Nai detectors in our nuclear physics research. They were sealed in a vacuum in an aluminum can shaped either as a hexagon or a pentagon. If they got any air in them they would start getting cloudy & would soon not be usable. Nai=Sodium Iodide.
It’s really dangerous. Once I was doing element spotting. The glass I dipped had some sodium and overheated. As I dipped it. The flask broke into pieces a big blast.
All things aside, this stuff is what got me as a kid interested in science class. Seeing and feeling physical chemical reactions and such is what I think makes people curious too pursue intrest in science. And drugs
