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As would be evidenced by kitchen salt exploding in your face when you use it. Oh wait. Not a thing.
by jillesvangurp 3y ago
As would be evidenced by kitchen salt exploding in your face when you use it. Oh wait. Not a thing.
- Sembiance 3y agoSodium and kitchen salt are not the same thing. https://youtu.be/CArZeDTwVh4?si=tdVHOPO-8QZhxrkS https://youtu.be/CArZeDTwVh4?si=tdVHOPO-8QZhxrkS
- jillesvangurp 3y agoSodium would be the Na part of Na Cl.
- bc_programming 3y agoRight, but water not being readily burnt is not evidence that hydrogen is inert.
- Kalium 3y agoYes. You are correct. Thankfully kitchen sodium is in compound form, and thus not likely to react violently with water. In this context, the properties of pure metallic sodium are relevant because it would need to be handled in manufacturing. Kitchen salt is more commonly mined or extracted, requiring minimal to no handling of pure metallic sodium. I hope this helps clarify any misunderstandings.
- Chabsff 3y agoAnd both of them contain a bunch of protons, yet neither, nor their combination, behave like loose protons (aka Hydrogen).
- stronglikedan 3y agoBut the Na has lost its electron to the Cl, so not the same thing.
- askvictor 3y agoWhoosh
- fooker 3y agoDid you skip middle school chemistry classes? Common salt is NaCl, not metallic sodium. The later (needed for batteries) explodes in contact with water.
- lstodd 3y agoIt's hydrogen that explodes, not sodium. Sodium just forms NaOH on contact with water. Did _you_ skip them classes?
- Terr_ 3y ago> Did _you_ skip them classes? That's crossing the line into hostile pedantry--there's no reason to get nitpicky over which step in the reaction chain is most-to-blame for someone losing their eyebrows. Fooker is still correct that (A) the metallic-vs-salt difference is very important and (B) bringing those metals together with water can cause explosions.
- nvy 3y agoThe reaction is exothermic and also produces H2 gas. If the metal ignites it can also ignite the H2 gas which gets spicy in a hurry, so it's reasonable for someone to interpret that as the metal exploding.
- kaashif 3y agoSodium definitely does explode on contact with water, although not as violently as potassium. Here's one of the search results for "sodium explosion": https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.16771 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.16771 Unless your comment is about how an explosion needs a pressure wave and sodium is just really burning hydrogen or something.
- gus_massa 3y agoThe article in Nature is about a paper by Thunderf00t (Phil Mason). He published the result in Nature Chemistry and also made a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 (the video has a nice balance, it's technical but not too technical).
- bluGill 3y agoThat isn't sodium, that is already exploded sodium.
- nvy 3y agoDon't be flippant if you're out of your intellectual depth. You are factually incorrect and should educate yourself on basic high school chemistry before you embarrass yourself further.
- senectus1 3y agoouch.