Sodium: A real blast at pool parties
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006This site is great! Science with a kick. I love it.
Sodium metal reacts rather badly with water. That makes for some great videos!
The site has the same kind of crazy fascination with chemistry that my friend had as we were growing up. He even made nitroglycerin once (and he’s now a pharmacist… scary).
From the main Sodium page:
As with any reactive element, sodium’s character is changed completely when it’s incorporated into a chemical compound. Let sodium, a reactive metal, and chlorine, a poisonous, choking gas, react with each other (which they do with a violent explosion) and the result is common table salt, NaCl, blowing out all over the place. Isn’t the world a wonderful place to live?
Suddenly I’m getting the urge to play with those home chemistry sets again…
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