Does Sodium Metal Explode In Dry Water?

"How does he keep his teeth so clean" is exactly what I was thinking as I watched a beaker explode. Definitely not "How does he keep his teeth."

1:44 (literally explodes) "Now this was interesting and a little unexpected; it didn't explode."

Okay but let's ask the real question here: Is lava wet?

01:57"So no explosion" The beaker: 💥💥

I’ve learned through experience that sodium and water is one of those outside experiments 😂😂😂

i love that we’ve started going outside for the outside experiments 😋 just wondering how thrilled your neighbors must be!

get the slow mo guy on board. This is beautiful

My dad was in a frat at Cal in the early 60s. They'd snag sodium from the lab on campus, cut notches in the block to give it more surface area, then throw in in a garbage can full of water. BOOM! Outside experiment for sure.

Looks like he used the rest of the dry water to wash his hair 😂

"I know what you're thinking - what happened to my hair?" ...

Fun fact, the paper shown at 6:30 was written by the youtuber Thunderf00t

Dry water and liquid nitrogen??? Anyone???

If it's less dense does that mean you wouldn't be able to swim in it? You know what you must do.

This is a three step reaction, all three of which are very energetic. In the first stage, sodium metal initially reacts with the water until it becomes molten. During stage 2, as a hot fluid, it will react violently with fumed silica in a thermite type reaction, forming elemental silicon and sodium oxides. A third reaction sees the sodium oxides react with the entrained water forming sodium hydroxide and hydrogen. Place a lump of sodium in dry fumed silica and remotely initiate the reaction with a propane torch. You will be surprised at the ferocity of the redox reaction. No water needed.

"nothing is happening. that is the worst thing that can happen." - action lab 2024

6:14 Hey, Thunderf00t's science paper😀

This was a good one, interesting result, especially the first run.

I absolutely love you enthusiasm!

Really interesting experiment I've never thought about. Good to see you're still rockin' your old video style, contrary to a lot of youtubers who change their style on a whim.

“I know what you all are thinking, How I keep my teeth so clean” ??? Nobody was thinking about your teeth lol