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> For this reason it is safest to break sodium lights under water [...] This sounds like dangerous advice. Sodium reacts exothermically with water producing Na
by remcob 7y ago
> For this reason it is safest to break sodium lights under water [...]
This sounds like dangerous advice. Sodium reacts exothermically with water producing NaOH. In practice this means it will violently boil and splatter strongly alkaline lye around. (Source: this is how my high school chem prof lost some of his eyesight.)
- Simon_says 7y agoYea that didn't make much sense to me. Throwing sodium into water is a nice way to get an explosion. https://youtu.be/SJVSj9maK6Q?t=223 https://youtu.be/SJVSj9maK6Q?t=223
- sebazzz 7y agoSodium is kept safe in oil.