Sodium - Periodic Table of Videos
This is our original sodium video but in HD (original was low quality). Sodium is an alkali metal and element number 11 on the periodic table. More links in description below ↓↓↓ Support...
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So Neil’s got a sample of sodium. Sodium is a very reactive metal, it is stored underan oil to stop air or moisture getting on it - stop it oxidising, stop it reacting - and as you can see it is a very soft metal, so he is going to put his knife in and withdrawthe lump of sodium, so there is about 2 kilos of sodium here, it's a really quite largerod. So we are going to cut a small sample of the sodium and we are going to see if wecan explore some of its chemistry.Sodium is again a light metal, rather like lithium and it has a, a melting point about96 degrees.So the sodium is a very, very shiny metal and as you can see as Neil cuts some off,you can see the quite nice shiny material. It’s really quite beautiful. Reacts very,very quickly with air and also wi...
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So Neil’s got a sample of sodium. Sodium is a very reactive metal, it is stored underan oil to stop air or moisture getting on it - stop it oxidising, stop it reacting - and as you can see it is a very soft metal, so he is going to put his knife in and withdrawthe lump of sodium, so there is about 2 kilos of sodium here, it's a really quite largerod. So we are going to cut a small sample of the sodium and we are going to see if wecan explore some of its chemistry.Sodium is again a light metal, rather like lithium and it has a, a melting point about96 degrees.So the sodium is a very, very shiny metal and as you can see as Neil cuts some off,you can see the quite nice shiny material. It’s really quite beautiful. Reacts very,very quickly with air and also wi...
