It's taught to us in our textbooks in 8th grade that we store sodium and potassium in Kerosene so that they don't react with the moisture in air and cause an uncontrolled spontaneous combustion
Totally, and then the hunt for sodium began, just to test the science. Engine valves from old mercs gave a good supply. Boiling water is the most spectacular.
You're taught in elementary school in the chemistry class that sodium samples are stored in kerosene so it doesn't come in contact with moisture and combusts
@@BlackFlagHeathenwell, you're writing this because of the sodium inside neurones. And sodium in your blood. And somewhere else Pretty neat material, but unfortunately it can make only one bond like any other alkali metal. That's why we're carbon based which makes 4 joints (but why not silicon life, it's also good)
Back in high school, in chemistry, we had a small bit of sodium for a demonstration like this. One idiot actually stole a tiny bit & put it in his back pocket. Later, we all visited him in the hospital, where he was forced to lie on this stomach due to the bad burn on his buttocks. I most strongly affirm this is a true story.
Oof, we where never allowed to handle the highly reactive metals for our demonstration of this. We did it in junior high in about grade 8 and the teacher did one demonstration for all of the reactive metals he had available. Some of them he'd select one student to hold onto a stick that was attached to a beaker that had the metal in it that the student could use to dump the metal into the water but that was the closest any of us got to handling the chemical itself
A fragment popped out of the water into our chemistry teacher's beard once. He ran to the sink to put it out but realised at the last second that doing that would be a really bad idea! 😬😖😂
@@stylinsandwich no. Sodium based. Because the Earth is covered in water and has humidity, it would be instant death to a sodium based life form. Not that one could ever exist. But, if they could, they would think the Earth is wild. And humans are wilder. We're like what? 70% water?
Right? I've got scads of room now in my sodium loft, since I moved it all to my gasoline guestroom. Thinking I'll start stockpiling phosphorus and tanks of oxygen up there. What could go wro--BLAMMMO!
What is more weird is the fact he said"the sodium is protected with layer of gasoline". Gasoline usually causes explosion, but here it is preventing explosion.
Its all about how molecules are structured. In everyday life, it might bw surprising, but if you know the mechanics behind it, its no longer gonna be a surprise
The following stories are rumors I heard at school. A student stole a big piece of sodium from his school, submerged in oil, and hid it in the kitchen at home. His mother found it, didn't know what it was, and flushed it down the toilet. They had to replace the sewers in the entire street. In my old high school, during lunch break, it was customary to throw little pieces of bread up in the air, and seagulls would catch those pieces in flight and swallow them. Then one kid decided to put a little piece of sodium in the bread and threw it up into the air. A seagull caught the bread, swallowed it, and as sodium reacts with stomach acid even worse than with water, the seagull exploded.
No need to give up on a pyrotechnic/demolitic good time; you can always get under the kitchen sink and mix up a nice big batch of Instant Pond. Or Stump-B-Gone.😁😁😁 Oh, btw, demolitic? Probably not a word. 🤣🤣🤣
I remember our chemistry teachers would do this in the classroom back in the 70’s.There was always a burnt patch or 4 on the ceilings in the science classrooms back then. Not now you can’t even sneeze in the classrooms!
Oh don't worry some chemistry teachers still are crazy. Before this girl graduated she accidentally poured acid on a plastic test tub rack, so it melted onto the table. When she took AP chemistry the next year, he made sure to sit her on that same table
when my father was a boy, around the time of the great depression, he read a chemistry book that left out some details and my dad got some Sodium and a cup of water and some matches. The book said that Sodium will split water into hydrogen and oxygen, so that's why he had matches. Anyways, he was in the kitchen and he dropped the Sodium in the water and went for the matches, but the Sodium started to sputter and react and it blew up, and it burned spots on the floor, ceiling and refrigerator door. my father did many things like that and served in the Navy during WWII and became a combustion engineer around Schenectady New York at General Electric.
I'm on mobile, so I didn't see who the uploader was until I opened the video, and my immediate thought was "Damn it, Nile..." Then I saw it wasn't him XD
These two need to do some kind of teamup or something nile with his chemicals and this man with his physics and magnets and gravity thats gotta create some crazy science project
exactly why diesel and kerosene obviously burn extremely well but aren't generally very flammable, they are way less volatile than gasoline and barely vaporize
If you have a pile of flour on a table good luck trying to light it on fire but if you knock that pile over and light a match you'll turn your kitchen into an airburst bomb
That's true for everything. Only gases can burn. When it looks like a liquid or solid is burning it's because the liquid or solid is emitting flammable gases so close to the surface you can't see the gap.
I remember we did an experiment with sodium in lab class and the teacher told use to give her back the sodium after so she can store it in the oil but someone didn't listen and just threw it into the sink and it exploded grazing her bangs.
What an awful teacher for not giving any warning to the dangers of the substance being used. Especially considering labs have easy access to water and an accidental interaction could occur, like it did, very easily if people aren't aware of the dangers. Someone could have been gravely injured and could have even lost an appendage!
One of the most dangerous things about this sort of reaction (sodium with water) is the tiny chunks of hot sodium that are hurled through the air by the explosion. If one hits you, it can burn your skin enough to release a little moisture in the form of lymph or blood which will the ignite the sodium which will create more blood, etc., until hopefully the reaction blasts the piece of sodium away from your flesh or it burns a nice divot in you.
My late father did this as a kid and he left burn marks on the refrigerator and ceiling and the floor. I can only imagine what it would do to a person.
Luxury. We used to dream of such results from explosions. When we were kids, our father would rig up a makeshift star, wait till it collapsed into a red dwarf, flay us over it, isolate some francium, stick it up our intestines then force super heated water up.... if we were lucky. We used to dream about getting sodium burns. But, do you know something? We were grateful for it.
It was kerosene, or mineral oil. Possible even patroleum jelly. Definitely not Gasoline because it's designed to become vapor over time. The Sodium will eventually explode over time, and when stored in a case of volatile reagents or elements, it would be criminal negligence for the person to last sign the sheet or approve the safety checks each day/week.
I did a demonstration for a den of Cub Scouts; I don't smoke, but I greeted them with an unlit cig in the corner of my mouth. It was about this time of year (early February), and I live in Washington State. I had one of the boys pour some gas into a metal bucket, and thanked him as I lit the cig. "I don't smoke", I said, after I got a nice, big cherry on the cig, and chucked the cig into the bucket. The cig went out, as I knew it would, but, apparently, I was the only one who DID know. All the boys, AND the Scout Master, ran, and I got to stand there with a smug, knowing smile on my face. Yep, good times. 👍 😁😁😁
Yeah you should not do that too much a friend of my father almost burns his house because he was using a pot full of gasoline to wash some pieces of his car, and was smoking while resting, I don't know the details but it seems that his kid came runing and hit the pot while he had the cigarette in his hand, and it all catch fire, luckily there was a hose nearby or it would have been an horrible accident
I was popular in my neighborhood with all the kids due to my sodium demonstrations when my kids were in middle and high school. I also made magnesium fluff (with a table saw and an ingot - done outside!!) and put it into large clear trash bags filled with oxygen from my torch and made huge flash bulbs. So much fun.
Honestly this does encourage more people to learn about how to explode things and blow things up so that's really intelligent for the community to do that. It's almost as if they want you to know these things so you will go and try these things.
what this needs is a 'Jaegerbomb' style device - a pot of gasoline with a shot glass of h2o floating on it. drop the sodium in the water, the water starts the sodium, the sodium starts the gasoline......
@@andrewschort724 I'm pretty sure they mostly don't obtain the lithium itself, they obtain lithium compounds like lithium carbonate and then you can obtain lithium ions doing oxidation-reduction reactions. I'm no expert in the matter though
@@RainbowFlowerCrow right. I’m also going to keep my electric scooter in a tank of oil. I’m glad I didn’t buy an electric car, because that one would be more challenging 😅
Well, as long as you BUY it from the stores on the inside after you have passed through passport control and spent MONEY on an overpriced bottle, then it's OK LMAO
Also, the explosion comes from the sodium liberating H2 gas from the water and also enough heat to light it off at the same time, while the H2 is mixing with the air. When there's a layer of gasoline on top, the hydrogen has no oxygen to react with so it bubbles to the surface while cooling down, until it meets air but isn't hot enough to ignite anymore.
@@pedroff_1 well when a brand new car with fresh gas runs it drops out water from exhaust, petroleum is a hydro Carbon but yes any type of dry gas would make it ls concentration much higher, funny that the water doesn't freeze and settle out of gasoline until about 20 below f ..
@@pedroff_1 I guess I'm saying that don't take it as 100% safe to drop sodium in lol I know because when I was much younger I tried to store some sodium in a jar of gas and thank God I walked away from it and about 2 minutes later poof scared the hell outta me and my delinquent friends 😅
@@sailingmohican2767 Definitely agree it isn't a good idea to assume it's safe! I was just speculating on factors that might explain it or might make it even more dangerous
Fun fact: liquid gasoline is not combustible. The fumes are, which is why cars spray gasoline into the engine and having a flame even near a container can cause the gasoline inside to ignite.
A lot of people never learn that gasoline actually needs a lot of the time a aerosol element to it to actually be dangerous. But as a liquid even in medium quanities often will just sizzle burn like lighter fluid in a stable liquid format.
Liquid gasoline does not burn because it needs to vaporize and mix with oxygen in order to combust. That's what a carburetor does on a car engine. It mixes the gas with air.
“A protective layer of gasoline” never thought I would hear that sentence in my life.
Yeah, those are not words you usually hear together
well, for one there's explosive armor
@@wernerviehhauser94
• +100% Sodium inmunity
• -100% Damage from all fire hazards.
Lmao same
@@kankeydong2500 slugs can finally have armor
Sometimes I wonder what your neighbors think happens at your house.
bro that joke is like overused, i see that in every video of him. fk it 😐
@@VedicSanatni it’s not a joke. It’s literally just the viewers wondering.
@@VedicSanatni This response to that same joke is overused. I see it after the same joke every time. fk it :|
@@probag8414 This reply to that respond to that same joke is overused. I see it after the same joke every time. fk it :)
Jesse
It's taught to us in our textbooks in 8th grade that we store sodium and potassium in Kerosene so that they don't react with the moisture in air and cause an uncontrolled spontaneous combustion
Yeap. Looked for this comment
Same
I'm imagining a banana marinated in kerosene right now
@@ArcanineEspeon LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣
Totally, and then the hunt for sodium began, just to test the science. Engine valves from old mercs gave a good supply. Boiling water is the most spectacular.
"don't drop sodium into gasoline" *proceeds to show it's perfectly safe to drop it into the gasoline*
Yes I think same
@@saraswatikatke4011Yes indeed, me think also same.
He's saying not to do it because nothing will happen...
You're taught in elementary school in the chemistry class that sodium samples are stored in kerosene so it doesn't come in contact with moisture and combusts
Clickbait title. 🤷♂️
Thank god, i almost drop all my sodium to a bowl with gasoline
you'd be fine as the video demonstrates
Youd be lucky it wasn't water
@@NoNameEst1992 I think he wants to have it for explosions and not waste it on something by that doesn’t work
yea i would hate to have mushy sodium. at least it wasn't water or u would be ded
People who comment without watching the video xD
Lesson learned. I will now coat myself in a protective layer of gasoline so that I won’t explode.
My friends, I believe we may have discovered the first sodium-based life form.
Just dont get close to fire or it might not end well
@@BlackFlagHeathenwell, you're writing this because of the sodium inside neurones. And sodium in your blood. And somewhere else
Pretty neat material, but unfortunately it can make only one bond like any other alkali metal. That's why we're carbon based which makes 4 joints (but why not silicon life, it's also good)
Lesson learned,
NeilRed’s house or entire neighbourhood is either empty or have value of $1 USD 😂
And whatever you do, stay away from water and salty chips!
Back in high school, in chemistry, we had a small bit of sodium for a demonstration like this. One idiot actually stole a tiny bit & put it in his back pocket. Later, we all visited him in the hospital, where he was forced to lie on this stomach due to the bad burn on his buttocks. I most strongly affirm this is a true story.
Oof, we where never allowed to handle the highly reactive metals for our demonstration of this. We did it in junior high in about grade 8 and the teacher did one demonstration for all of the reactive metals he had available. Some of them he'd select one student to hold onto a stick that was attached to a beaker that had the metal in it that the student could use to dump the metal into the water but that was the closest any of us got to handling the chemical itself
and those kids are the reason why some dumb rules exist.
Don't put sodium in your ass sweat.
@@a.s.h-And Those Kids are Beavis & Butthead.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A fragment popped out of the water into our chemistry teacher's beard once. He ran to the sink to put it out but realised at the last second that doing that would be a really bad idea! 😬😖😂
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to an earth-shattering kaboom!"
-Marvin the Martian
Welp you're gonna need an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator to achieve that result!
@@tommyapples8490 I still crack up when Porky hands Marvin a stick of lit dynamite 🧨
Isn’t it delightful?
Lol I like Marvin.
Do kids these days even know who Marvin the Martian is?
"This is not Meth....it's sodium."
I was wondering why it had slight dif-
It's what meth does to your brain cells
Dealers these days. They will sell you any old crap.
soooo no water just gas and a protective layer of meth🤯 I need another project the 10 I'm on now I'll finish later
Sodium. Not even once. 🚫🧂🚫
One of the few scenarios in which saying, “a protective layer of gasoline” can make sense 😂
I couldn't believe that was a sentence
I was thinking that this might be the only one… At least I can’t think of another scenario, lol.
Alkali metals are actually stored in liquid paraffin. Keeps the air off of them.
@@drunkenhobo8020 I thought it was mineral oil
protecting against fire at that.
Remember kids; if you’re playing with explosives, don’t do it in a glass container. Shrapnel will make a bad day worse very quickly.
Plexiglass. 😉
neighbour: "oh god he got gasoline this time"
homland security in the bush: "nah it's chill. just watch"
the police probably know actionlabs by name XD
Imagine a sodium based lifeform finding out people exist on earth
Great comment
Huh? Do you mean silicon based?
@@stylinsandwich no. Sodium based. Because the Earth is covered in water and has humidity, it would be instant death to a sodium based life form.
Not that one could ever exist. But, if they could, they would think the Earth is wild. And humans are wilder. We're like what? 70% water?
@@dark14lifeThat's so interesting. Write some more facts about it. What might be their atmosphere like or will they have any ?
Can't imagine sodium forming complex biomolecules. It is chemically impossible I believe.
This is exactly what I needed! Now I can move all the sodium from my sodium room into the gasoline room! Now I have a whole new room for activities!
Right? I've got scads of room now in my sodium loft, since I moved it all to my gasoline guestroom. Thinking I'll start stockpiling phosphorus and tanks of oxygen up there. What could go wro--BLAMMMO!
@@Panzer_the_Merganser CAN WE GET A CLEAN UP ON AISLE 3?
Did this unexpectedly turn into oxygen not included...??
Literally laughed out loud. Thank you 🏆
Now, I'm going to empty my shed and bring all my Sodium into the kitchen.
First time I've ever heard the phrase "protective layer of gasoline" 😂
Lesson learned: don’t eat sodium
My weekend plans :(
Cardiologist approved.
ngl he had us in the first- ngl he had us in the second- yeah he had us the whole time💀
I read ngl as "nigel" for some reason damn I need sleep
@@Killbayne ngl he had you in the first half
Let’s try ethanol we know ethanol likes water
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What is more weird is the fact he said"the sodium is protected with layer of gasoline". Gasoline usually causes explosion, but here it is preventing explosion.
Gasoline is a surprising stable substance, providing you don't expose it to an ignition source.
Its all about how molecules are structured. In everyday life, it might bw surprising, but if you know the mechanics behind it, its no longer gonna be a surprise
There is always the odd exception to a rule😅
Hmm, that sounded a lot like "trees cause forest fires" to me 😅
Gasoline: “Maybe I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore.”
The following stories are rumors I heard at school.
A student stole a big piece of sodium from his school, submerged in oil, and hid it in the kitchen at home. His mother found it, didn't know what it was, and flushed it down the toilet. They had to replace the sewers in the entire street.
In my old high school, during lunch break, it was customary to throw little pieces of bread up in the air, and seagulls would catch those pieces in flight and swallow them. Then one kid decided to put a little piece of sodium in the bread and threw it up into the air. A seagull caught the bread, swallowed it, and as sodium reacts with stomach acid even worse than with water, the seagull exploded.
Broooooooooo 😮
omg what did I just read
Mom finds a rock submerged in oil: “weird ass rock, lemme flush it down the toilet”
Why would they replace the entire streets sewers when only the one toilet would explode ..... I smell🐂 💩
@@RC-nv6rc It was probably multiple pieces. Also, I do not know how many people the story passed before I heard it.
Can we give a shout out to the glass bowl that survives the boom.
Gasoline was my favorite toy growing up
Did you wet your bed and do taxidermy with the neighbors' pets too?
I can tell because you forgot to add a period.
😅
I played with water, I was a real badass
Don't know how we made it into adulthood safely. Guardian angels?
@@vodkacannon 🤓
well shoot there goes my weekend plans
i blowd up my hands ( ´; - ;`)
@John Doe, bummer, no more "wankies" for you. ✋🚫🍆
I don’t know about you man, petrol is more expensive than water here where I live
No need to give up on a pyrotechnic/demolitic good time; you can always get under the kitchen sink and mix up a nice big batch of Instant Pond. Or Stump-B-Gone.😁😁😁 Oh, btw, demolitic? Probably not a word. 🤣🤣🤣
I remember our chemistry teachers would do this in the classroom back in the 70’s.There was always a burnt patch or 4 on the ceilings in the science classrooms back then. Not now you can’t even sneeze in the classrooms!
Oh don't worry some chemistry teachers still are crazy. Before this girl graduated she accidentally poured acid on a plastic test tub rack, so it melted onto the table. When she took AP chemistry the next year, he made sure to sit her on that same table
They can’t do that anymore since they took out all the asbestos ceiling tiles😂
“A protective layer of gasoline” is a phrase that I never thought I would hear.
Gasoline is an oil so sodium did not react
Sodium and other Group I elements are stored in oil
Gas is actually a spirit, diesel is an oil. That's why gas catches fire quicker than diesel.
Smartypants
He was correct when he said hydrocarbon, the gasoline molecules are non-polar so they're not very reactive with sodium, h2o is polar
thats so incorrect idk what to do with it...
GASOLINE IS A SOLVENT, ACTUALLY STRONGER THAN WATER! BUT NOT HERE :P
@@jimL-69420 thankyou
when my father was a boy, around the time of the great depression, he read a chemistry book that left out some details and my dad got some Sodium and a cup of water and some matches.
The book said that Sodium will split water into hydrogen and oxygen, so that's why he had matches.
Anyways, he was in the kitchen and he dropped the Sodium in the water and went for the matches, but the Sodium started to sputter and react and it blew up, and it burned spots on the floor, ceiling and refrigerator door.
my father did many things like that and served in the Navy during WWII and became a combustion engineer around Schenectady New York at General Electric.
Sounds like a magician boy discovering its power with an old grimoire he found
@@iamako2584YESSSSS!!
Based to hell
I think he dropped this, 👑
I've always remembered that Schenectady has the 12345 zipcode.
high school pre- science major got case of red face experimenting with gasoline
my man did the double fakeout on this one
“Kind of weird when playing with gasoline is safer than water”
*Nilered has vigorously disassembled the chat*
Underrated comment💀
🤣🤣🤣
I'm on mobile, so I didn't see who the uploader was until I opened the video, and my immediate thought was "Damn it, Nile..." Then I saw it wasn't him XD
"first i put the chat inside a beaker, then i poured some bromine i had lying around, and now i just had to wait..."
These two need to do some kind of teamup or something nile with his chemicals and this man with his physics and magnets and gravity thats gotta create some crazy science project
In my chemistry class I chose to experiment with the flammability of gasoline. Turns out the liquid itself isn't very flammable, but the vapor is.
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exactly why diesel and kerosene obviously burn extremely well but aren't generally very flammable, they are way less volatile than gasoline and barely vaporize
If you have a pile of flour on a table good luck trying to light it on fire but if you knock that pile over and light a match you'll turn your kitchen into an airburst bomb
That's true for everything. Only gases can burn. When it looks like a liquid or solid is burning it's because the liquid or solid is emitting flammable gases so close to the surface you can't see the gap.
Yupp. Lots of people have learned that lesson to their dismay.
if I present this at school I may need to get permission by the superintendent 💀
The way he was so determined for an explosion.
I remember we did an experiment with sodium in lab class and the teacher told use to give her back the sodium after so she can store it in the oil but someone didn't listen and just threw it into the sink and it exploded grazing her bangs.
what happened to that person did he(she) got punished?
@@glaxyl not really, it wasn't ill intended and she clearly just didn't hear or forgot. We were just relieved no one got hurt.
@@terrypark3690 oh, nice
@Hellequin Maskharat awesome and amazing story hahahahag
What an awful teacher for not giving any warning to the dangers of the substance being used. Especially considering labs have easy access to water and an accidental interaction could occur, like it did, very easily if people aren't aware of the dangers. Someone could have been gravely injured and could have even lost an appendage!
One of the most dangerous things about this sort of reaction (sodium with water) is the tiny chunks of hot sodium that are hurled through the air by the explosion. If one hits you, it can burn your skin enough to release a little moisture in the form of lymph or blood which will the ignite the sodium which will create more blood, etc., until hopefully the reaction blasts the piece of sodium away from your flesh or it burns a nice divot in you.
Well that’s fucking terrifying.
My late father did this as a kid and he left burn marks on the refrigerator and ceiling and the floor.
I can only imagine what it would do to a person.
Scary shit
@@theuncanspanI read your comment as, "Salty shit"
Luxury. We used to dream of such results from explosions.
When we were kids, our father would rig up a makeshift star, wait till it collapsed into a red dwarf, flay us over it, isolate some francium, stick it up our intestines then force super heated water up.... if we were lucky.
We used to dream about getting sodium burns.
But, do you know something? We were grateful for it.
Gasoline starts singing gasolina song😂
funny thing was, I went to a bar last night that had karaoke on, the 2 young girls went up to sing that song, didnt realise it was in Spanish....
I don't know why I always hide my hide while watching this guys videos
Sodium is commonly used to dry solvents in chemistry labs. I would not hesitate to put sodium in gasoline.
As far as I remember, at our school the sodium was stored in a jar with gasoline, to avoid being burned with the air humidity.
I think mineral oil is more common, but same idea
Or kerosene
Seeing as gasoline is volatile, so it will evaporate over time, and can be absorbed through the skin, I'm guessing that wasn't gasoline
It was kerosene, or mineral oil. Possible even patroleum jelly. Definitely not Gasoline because it's designed to become vapor over time. The Sodium will eventually explode over time, and when stored in a case of volatile reagents or elements, it would be criminal negligence for the person to last sign the sheet or approve the safety checks each day/week.
it was most definitely stored in mineral oil.
Noted and now have a blueprint in my mind on how to make a trolling sort of device
I like his chuckle when things blow up
How often do you hear the words: "safer to play with gasoline than water"? 😂🤣😂
I did a demonstration for a den of Cub Scouts; I don't smoke, but I greeted them with an unlit cig in the corner of my mouth. It was about this time of year (early February), and I live in Washington State. I had one of the boys pour some gas into a metal bucket, and thanked him as I lit the cig. "I don't smoke", I said, after I got a nice, big cherry on the cig, and chucked the cig into the bucket. The cig went out, as I knew it would, but, apparently, I was the only one who DID know. All the boys, AND the Scout Master, ran, and I got to stand there with a smug, knowing smile on my face. Yep, good times. 👍 😁😁😁
Cherry hhhhhahah
@@zandig666 I usually don't lose anything in the English to English translation. Funny, though.😁😁
@@kevinchristensen84 lol funny term hha I remember that from the old days lol
Yeah you should not do that too much a friend of my father almost burns his house because he was using a pot full of gasoline to wash some pieces of his car, and was smoking while resting, I don't know the details but it seems that his kid came runing and hit the pot while he had the cigarette in his hand, and it all catch fire, luckily there was a hose nearby or it would have been an horrible accident
@@sanpepsiman1277lies. Water is not a good solution to a petrol fire.
I love how excited he gets when it blows even though he knows exactly what's going to happen
It's a good thing I found this. I was going to season my gasoline before I mowed the lawn so the grass has a nice salty flavor. But I know better now.
"It's safer to play with gas than water"
"Seriously, don't put sodium in gas"
Instructions unclear, burnt house down
This is why in chemistry labs, alkali metals like sodium and potassium are typically stored in vials filled with mineral oil.
Edit: fixed typo
@Jisnu Chatterjee yikes thanks for spotting that. I forgot which one it was 😅
It doesn't have to be mineral oil.
@@castleanthrax1833 correct, but it usually is. Certainly wouldn't want vegetable oil.
@Jisnu Chatterjee I've never actually seen alkaline earth metals stores in mineral oil. I think magnesium turnings and ribbon are just stored dry.
I've seen it stored in kerosene. It had a curious red residue, I'm guessing from some reaction with trace amounts of water in there?
I was popular in my neighborhood with all the kids due to my sodium demonstrations when my kids were in middle and high school. I also made magnesium fluff (with a table saw and an ingot - done outside!!) and put it into large clear trash bags filled with oxygen from my torch and made huge flash bulbs. So much fun.
“What’s he doing in there??” 🙃
I have learned more from this single channel than I have from grade school.
Thanks you for telling us! I always drop sodium on gasoline at home! You saved me this time 😁
Drop it in some water suspended directly above some gasoline
Honestly this does encourage more people to learn about how to explode things and blow things up so that's really intelligent for the community to do that.
It's almost as if they want you to know these things so you will go and try these things.
"It's safer to play with gasoline than with water"
-ActionLab 2023
Reminds me on those nas memes, "when you pour water on a stone, nothing happens"
I love this channel because of all the nifty ideas I can use when I, inevitably, barricade myself in my home and the swat team is about to break in.
“Isn’t playing with gasoline dangerous?”
“Na, it’ll be fine…”
You had me thinking something was going to happen so many times it’s not even funny
It blew my mind the fact that someone could be giving sweets made of sodium and blow other people's minds too
what this needs is a 'Jaegerbomb' style device - a pot of gasoline with a shot glass of h2o floating on it. drop the sodium in the water, the water starts the sodium, the sodium starts the gasoline......
That laugh after the explosion is contagious 😂
Just like lithium. You store it in oil because it's so reactive and to water
How do they process lithium to make batteries, as volatile as it is?
@@andrewschort724 I'm pretty sure they mostly don't obtain the lithium itself, they obtain lithium compounds like lithium carbonate and then you can obtain lithium ions doing oxidation-reduction reactions. I'm no expert in the matter though
So this is the reason for those battery explosions that sometimes occur? 🤔
@@ValdemarDeMatos
Brb, going to store my phone in a vat of oil
@@RainbowFlowerCrow right. I’m also going to keep my electric scooter in a tank of oil. I’m glad I didn’t buy an electric car, because that one would be more challenging 😅
Oh sorry, I just had a pack of sodium sitting next to a gasoline tank.
I feel like fishing in video games now.
love the format!
From now on I'm going to assume this is the reason why you're not allowed a water bottle on an airplane.
Limiting liquids and gels on commercial flights is just post 9/11 security theater.
It's a very real concern when dealing with molten aluminium tho.
Well, as long as you BUY it from the stores on the inside after you have passed through passport control and spent MONEY on an overpriced bottle, then it's OK LMAO
Damn explosion proof gasoline always has to ruin the fun for everyone.
Bro is edging us with the explosion
with the second test I was waiting for the fire 😂😂😂😂
Absolutely love this channel, always entertaining and educational. Keep up the great work.
When they say water is just water.
Water has many faces but lying is one of them.
Example; that liquid looks like water but it isn't
Time to drop sodium in gasoline
And then drop sodium in water
People swimming in the ocean: *guess i'll die*
Yo my sodium is about to explode: *”Throw some gas on it!”*
Sometimes his genius is almost frightening
You have a genius for coming up with interesting demonstrations .
"Protective layer of gasoline". Something you really don't hear every day.
Next try Francium!
Uranium next
Ahhh yes, the thing that with only a small amount explodes like a damn hand grenade
And then plutonium!!
Also, the explosion comes from the sodium liberating H2 gas from the water and also enough heat to light it off at the same time, while the H2 is mixing with the air. When there's a layer of gasoline on top, the hydrogen has no oxygen to react with so it bubbles to the surface while cooling down, until it meets air but isn't hot enough to ignite anymore.
I remember a little piece of sodioum reacting whit water spinning dangerously...
First thought: Gasoline and sodium? This *has* to be an Action Lab video, right?
Indeed! Keep the crazy content coming, it's always fun to watch.
This is the moment Nile became Heisenburg
Wrong channel
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bro thought this was nilered
I love how excited he is of his own experiments 😂🥰
That bowl needs an oscar
Pour gasoline on sodium fires instead of water, got it. Thanks for the tip!
NO!!! SPRAY it instead.....Maybe even use a Windex® container to apply it? (Must have a strong grip to keep squeezing the handle though.)🙄🤣
@@JebidiahKrackedyetagain-xv9hc ah, aerosolize it for wider dispersion! Great idea!
depends on the gas because it is capable of holding water mixed in at the right temp and other factors, experience is how I know lol
I imagine especially gasoline that's mixed with ethanol probably has some extra water being held, but, who knows, maybe not really?
@@pedroff_1 well when a brand new car with fresh gas runs it drops out water from exhaust, petroleum is a hydro Carbon but yes any type of dry gas would make it ls concentration much higher, funny that the water doesn't freeze and settle out of gasoline until about 20 below f ..
@@pedroff_1 I guess I'm saying that don't take it as 100% safe to drop sodium in lol I know because when I was much younger I tried to store some sodium in a jar of gas and thank God I walked away from it and about 2 minutes later poof scared the hell outta me and my delinquent friends 😅
@@sailingmohican2767 Definitely agree it isn't a good idea to assume it's safe! I was just speculating on factors that might explain it or might make it even more dangerous
Don’t worry I definitely don’t have a random chunk of sodium and no random bottles of gasoline 👀
A protective layer of gasoline is something I never thought I would hear
Theres to many twists and turns i cant keep up
Fun fact: liquid gasoline is not combustible. The fumes are, which is why cars spray gasoline into the engine and having a flame even near a container can cause the gasoline inside to ignite.
Would this change based on the gasolines ethanol rating ?
Great/very smart question. Would love to know also.
Is that how a grenade works, Action Man?
Oh would you look at that? It appears i have spontaneously combusted
A lot of people never learn that gasoline actually needs a lot of the time a aerosol element to it to actually be dangerous. But as a liquid even in medium quanities often will just sizzle burn like lighter fluid in a stable liquid format.
Liquid gasoline does not burn because it needs to vaporize and mix with oxygen in order to combust.
That's what a carburetor does on a car engine. It mixes the gas with air.
Your neighbors either hate you or think you're awesome!
RIP to that glass bowl
It's kinda a giveaway when you're lowering the catalyst with a string that zero is about to occur.
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This still got me because I was thinking that nothing will happen so I clicked on the video to see how anything could happen and nothing happened.
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This is how metals like this are stored.