Why did it "used" to be your favourite element? One of my favourite elements is actually mercury, despite the high toxicity of its compounds - I really love the physical properties and looks as a liquid metal! It was also the first superconductor found 😉
also this sodium can be used in the sodium production method outlined by NurdRage, and it should work much better than the sodium magnesium alloy stuff that usually is needed if no sodium is available.
Good attempt. Try to put some kind of insulating separator on top, where bubbles appear on the anode, to prevent them from reaching over to sodium. By the way, you don't need to say "sodium metal" or "oxygen gas". Sodium and oxygen are sufficient names.
Hey, could you let me know what type (Brand and name) of heating mantle that is? They look cheaper than the ones we usually buy, (and easier to fix) which are consistently broken by my beloved employees.
If they're Glas-col mantles, as denoted by the label in the video, I checked and boy am I wrong. £200 for a tiny 100ml not even mantle - they're selling the hollow skin of a mantle. I don't know if you just don't show it in the video, but I wouldn't be able to cope anywhere near as well as you if I broke that. I'm much better when other people break my things. An experience that's only too familiar having started a small business and hiring chemists straight out of uni who think they can smash glassware and set things on fire like I have sigma money. One has literally broken five heating mantles (Thankfully only small ones - still £230 each) and has been suspiciously implicated (standing over the burning skeleton) in two more. Most upsettingly a 250ml three neck flask, given to me by my secondary school. chem teacher when I was just getting my lab set up, broke last week. I dropped it and watched in slow motion as I clumsily grasped for it, but I missed as I was holding other glassware at the same time. If anyone is a laboratory glassblowing student who needs stuff to practise on, hit me up. Anyway, sorry. If I had a £5 every time a piece of my precious glassware was broken in an entirely preventable way, I'd be rich.
Let me breaks this down, MrGreen uploaded his video five Months ago, scrap science uploaded his video two years, nux,s channel uploaded his five years ago and llusys system uploaded their video eight years ago. The Castner cell came out in 1888 and it’s a common disused cell if you’ve taken an electrochemistry course. If I made a deepfake chemistry video then you could say an idea was stolen. Have a day you deserve!
The definition of making is “the act or process of forming, causing, doing, or coming into being” I made sodium metal, I did not create the original sodium atom nor did I claim to. The title of the video is “Making sodium metal by the castner process” take note of the sodium metal part. If I wanted to use the term refine in the title it would be longer than necessary, ie “refining sodium from sodium hydroxide using the castner process”.
@@WheelerScientific why wouldn’t you just say ‘refining sodium metal’ for a video title. You could add ‘via (the particular process)’ if you really thought it necessary. The topic of refining would be an interesting video
That would be an incorrect title then, refining refers to removal of impurities, I didn’t remove impurities from sodium metal, I made sodium metal. I chose the title I did due to it describing what I did and I liked the wording of it.
Yes, I do; I did not claim it was to remove all impurities; the definition of refining is "remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process." I did not refine sodium metal; I refined sodium hydroxide to sodium metal. Refining sodium metal would involve starting with sodium metal and processing it, which I did not do. Read my comments carefully and understand what you are arguing before doing so.
Sodium used to be my favourite element in chemistry. I remember being extremely fascinated by its properties as a novice.
Why did it "used" to be your favourite element?
One of my favourite elements is actually mercury, despite the high toxicity of its compounds - I really love the physical properties and looks as a liquid metal! It was also the first superconductor found 😉
Hmm... I somewhat hated chemistry 😅
Love to see people doing this reaction! Definitely one of my favourites.
Awesome stuff!
It is a quite cool reaction! Had a lot of fun doing it. P.s. I quite enjoy your videos!
@@WheelerScientific Thanks mate! Big fan of yours too, haha.
Wake up babe wheeler scintefic just posted
also this sodium can be used in the sodium production method outlined by NurdRage, and it should work much better than the sodium magnesium alloy
stuff that usually is needed if no sodium is available.
Appreciate your awesome work man
Keep making such videos, I will be you permeant subscriber now 😊
man ur vids are so underapreciated ur like a less known nile red u have mutch potential
Thanks for sharing the things that worked less well!
Glad you found it helpful!
what voltage range were you using? or amerage? which were you selecting for?
I was pushing around 5 volts at 10 amps. 10 amps was the maximum my supply could output.
Good attempt. Try to put some kind of insulating separator on top, where bubbles appear on the anode, to prevent them from reaching over to sodium.
By the way, you don't need to say "sodium metal" or "oxygen gas". Sodium and oxygen are sufficient names.
Would you be able to make potassium metal, the same way, but with potassium hydroxide?
Hey, could you let me know what type (Brand and name) of heating mantle that is? They look cheaper than the ones we usually buy, (and easier to fix) which are consistently broken by my beloved employees.
If they're Glas-col mantles, as denoted by the label in the video, I checked and boy am I wrong.
£200 for a tiny 100ml not even mantle - they're selling the hollow skin of a mantle.
I don't know if you just don't show it in the video, but I wouldn't be able to cope anywhere near as well as you if I broke that.
I'm much better when other people break my things.
An experience that's only too familiar having started a small business and hiring chemists straight out of uni who think they can smash glassware and set things on fire like I have sigma money.
One has literally broken five heating mantles (Thankfully only small ones - still £230 each) and has been suspiciously implicated (standing over the burning skeleton) in two more.
Most upsettingly a 250ml three neck flask, given to me by my secondary school. chem teacher when I was just getting my lab set up, broke last week. I dropped it and watched in slow motion as I clumsily grasped for it, but I missed as I was holding other glassware at the same time.
If anyone is a laboratory glassblowing student who needs stuff to practise on, hit me up.
Anyway, sorry. If I had a £5 every time a piece of my precious glassware was broken in an entirely preventable way, I'd be rich.
Excuse me, can you answer me how much tempurater to electrolysis naoh ❤
Carbon >>> any element
Try MMO electrodes
Now make meth.
😂👏
The castner process is ehhhhh in my opinion but nice vid
You stole this idea from MrGreen
Let me breaks this down, MrGreen uploaded his video five Months ago, scrap science uploaded his video two years, nux,s channel uploaded his five years ago and llusys system uploaded their video eight years ago. The Castner cell came out in 1888 and it’s a common disused cell if you’ve taken an electrochemistry course. If I made a deepfake chemistry video then you could say an idea was stolen. Have a day you deserve!
You don’t make elements unless you have a nuclear reactor. You refine them
The definition of making is “the act or process of forming, causing, doing, or coming into being” I made sodium metal, I did not create the original sodium atom nor did I claim to. The title of the video is “Making sodium metal by the castner process” take note of the sodium metal part. If I wanted to use the term refine in the title it would be longer than necessary, ie “refining sodium from sodium hydroxide using the castner process”.
@@WheelerScientific why wouldn’t you just say ‘refining sodium metal’ for a video title. You could add ‘via (the particular process)’ if you really thought it necessary.
The topic of refining would be an interesting video
That would be an incorrect title then, refining refers to removal of impurities, I didn’t remove impurities from sodium metal, I made sodium metal. I chose the title I did due to it describing what I did and I liked the wording of it.
@@WheelerScientific you know that refining doesn’t mean removing all impurities. You should make a video discussing the distinctions.
Yes, I do; I did not claim it was to remove all impurities; the definition of refining is "remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process." I did not refine sodium metal; I refined sodium hydroxide to sodium metal. Refining sodium metal would involve starting with sodium metal and processing it, which I did not do. Read my comments carefully and understand what you are arguing before doing so.