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Sodium definitely does explode on contact with water, although not as violently as potassium. Here's one of the search results for "sodium explosion": https://
by kaashif 3y ago
Sodium 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).