@@artstsym Likely the sodium reduced to a point where the amount in the first explosion was less than the second. While the second explosion was larger, it behaved the same.
no. lava is just molten rock. just like molten metal is metal. its not wet.(that is if you will not take it in atomic level). better question is is water wet?
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.
@@jskelton25 You might be right. I googled it and found conflicting reactions. One school of thought says that sodium peroxide and water form NaOH and oxygen. A second claims that the products are NaOH and hydrogen peroxide. Either way, the third reaction is spicy.
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.
I know someone who stole some magnesium when we did experiments in science class. She took it home, tried to light it on the stove to show to her family. Didn't manage to do it. I've seen their kitchen. She could've easily set it on fire.
@@aelolul He already lost his mind by the point he did that research and published, but for such a... person.... I'm still amazed at the novelty and quality of that paper. Apparently you can be an asshole AND a scientist.
There is a thing called aerated water, it's used in water treatment, I guess to separate the 💩 out. You can't swim in it, you will sink. The density of the aerated water is low so the force of buoyancy is not high enough for people to float.
@@dominicfindlay Aerated water can also be highly dangerous, even for boats, IIRC occasionally this can occur naturally though underwater volcanism and hydrothermal vents
@@kindlin I know, was following him since the dawn of RUclips, when he was had his epic clash with Hovind and VenomFangX. And tbh, I learned a lot from his approach. And got really interested in biology thanks to him. But when you get his approach, when you understand his line of thinking... all you left with is rather boring and toxic rants of the guy enjoying him being the smartest kid in the room. I have extremely mixed feelings about that guy.
“There are inside experiments and outside experiments. I learned a long time ago, sodium is an outside experiment”. I cracked up up at that point and had to pause….
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 think the first explosion created micro cracks that were small enough that the glass didn't break. But the 2nd explosion made those initial cracks propagate till it fractured
What's even better to watch is first by pausing the video,(space bar), right on the explosion, (2:47). Then move one frame at a time,(comma [ , ] for back & period [ . ] for forward), to see the reaction and it's AWESOME...
30s in, my hypothesis is no, it won't react because it never makes contact. But if the coating is not complete and it can make contact then yes it will. I will be interested to see sodium in ice (what I thought this was going to be when I read "dry water")
6:12 You show the paper by Philip E. Mason, also known as Thunderf00t here on RUclips. You really should mention his videos where he explains the Coulomb explosion, and link to his alkali metal explosion videos in general.
I found this one fascinating. My pre-experiment guess was that the fume silica around the microdroplets would sort of "insulate" the sodium from the water. But there would still be small explosions because the fume silicia isn't going to be perfectly covering all of the water. There will be some "uninsulated" drops of water with which the sodium can react. I expected the mini explosions to continue until the sodium was gone. I wasn't expecting the larger explosion that ended the first experiment. Maybe I was a little close - at least initially. But completely wrong on the second, as I figured it would just be the same.
You should try Novec 1230. This is a real dry water. It looks like water, but it doesn't make things wet and is also used to efficiently put out the fire.
I've been watching for a few years now. Your experiments are by far the most interesting and thorough. Very informative and understandable. I watch with my kids in hopes that they will become as interested in physics as i am, and have been. Ultimately that they will take that in a direction that i was never encouraged to. Thank you
My thoughts on what's happening: The Silicon Powder forms a protective layer around the individual droplets. But they are inhomogeneous; some may have little gaps where liquid water and sodium can react. Because of the low direct reaction space, the reaction starts relatively slow, nevertheless generates a lot of heat. This ignites the formed H2 AND evaporates the encapsulated water droplets. In the gaseous form, the water won't be "protected" by the silicon powder and can react on a much bigger area with the sodium, accelerating the reaction's intensity more and more until it explodes.
i may be misremembering but there was another liquid ive seen, but cannot recall the formula of that is also called dry water, it might just be someone using hydrophobic powder on themselves and other objects but i think it was a slightly modified H2O formula that made it behave differently. the differences are that that liquid looks and behaves exactly like water but does not "wet" anything put into it, i think the person stated it could be injested safely. if it is a different substance it would be interesting to see sodium react to that kind of liquid
It’s an issue of surface coverage. Water plus sodium is 100% coverage. Dry water you have added a material that breaks up the coverage of water to the sodium changing the reaction time and behavior. Meaning smaller surface to react to.
(RUclips ate my post -- trying again) Actually, the first time putting sodium in dry water did have an explosion -- it was just much smaller than that of the second time. It didn't break the beaker, but it did blow out material with a very audible pop. Also note that sodium hydroxide will react with the silica that was used to convert the water into dry water.
It seemed obvious to me that the "dry water" would have much less contact with the sodium, with all the air and silica there. Sodium in "normal water" is almost totally surrounded by water, after the reaction has started mostly water vapor, because of the leidenfrost effect, but still water. Besides reaction products, obviously. Also, I suspect the sodium hydroxide dissolves, and by that disperses much better in water than "dry water".
Funny 0:45 inside experimenta and outside. Sodium is outside experiment. Second explosion is due first reacted and burned dry water. Second reacted to more liquid water since burning liquified some.
"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."
His hair do sure fits todays video 😆
😂😂
3:55 is funnier.
Exactly 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
1:44 (literally explodes) "Now this was interesting and a little unexpected; it didn't explode."
There's explosions, and then there's sodium explosions. If you're walking away with an intact vessel, it wasn't a sodium explosion.
@@artstsym Likely the sodium reduced to a point where the amount in the first explosion was less than the second. While the second explosion was larger, it behaved the same.
@@artstsym 🤓
@@seedee3d 😂 Imagine commenting the nerd emoji under a _science video_
@@seedee3d Wow, you are so proud of yourself for not knowing middle school chemistry.
01:57"So no explosion"
The beaker: 💥💥💥
Its more of a: 💦🥛💦 imo
I’ve learned through experience that sodium and water is one of those outside experiments 😂😂😂
Like toddlers do
You seriously thought "this is a good idea" and did sodium indoors?
@@jwalster9412he's quoting. 🙄
@@adrielburned6924 "he's quoting 🙄" Yes I Am.
Going outside was a good idea.
Using a glass vessel was a terrible idea.
Okay but let's ask the real question here: Is lava wet?
Bro🤯
Id say yes tho
Yes. Are you?
Well I suppose since the lava has volatiles in it like H2O and CO2 then… yes?
no. lava is just molten rock. just like molten metal is metal. its not wet.(that is if you will not take it in atomic level). better question is is water wet?
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.
Do you know of a video or paper on this?
@@DANGJOS Personal experience.
@@Franklin-jj4jz Well if you ever do make such a video, I'd love to see it! Safely of course
I don't see the third reaction producing hydrogen tbh. The first will definitely produce hydrogen.
@@jskelton25 You might be right. I googled it and found conflicting reactions. One school of thought says that sodium peroxide and water form NaOH and oxygen. A second claims that the products are NaOH and hydrogen peroxide. Either way, the third reaction is spicy.
Dry water and liquid nitrogen??? Anyone???
Fr.
Freeze-dried water?
It would just freeze.
@@memejeff dry snow?
@@BenjaminVestergaard Good point.
i love that we’ve started going outside for the outside experiments 😋
just wondering how thrilled your neighbors must be!
"The Backyard Scientist" had some neighbor problems with experiments in his backyard...
They see him go outside with a lab coat and they go back inside 😂
Next video: Is the HOA president soluble in ethyl alcohol?
lol, he's gotta get as much outside time in before the houses near him are fully built and neighbors move in and start complaining.
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.
I know someone who stole some magnesium when we did experiments in science class. She took it home, tried to light it on the stove to show to her family. Didn't manage to do it.
I've seen their kitchen. She could've easily set it on fire.
get the slow mo guy on board. This is beautiful
Fun fact, the paper shown at 6:30 was written by the youtuber Thunderf00t
Gross
He's not gross, he's just completely lost his mind in the intervening years. Poor guy.
@@aelolul He already lost his mind by the point he did that research and published, but for such a... person.... I'm still amazed at the novelty and quality of that paper. Apparently you can be an asshole AND a scientist.
@@aelolul nah, gross. It's something I didn't want or need to know
Must be Elon fans in here then 😂
"I know what you're thinking - what happened to my hair?" ...
"nothing is happening. that is the worst thing that can happen." - action lab 2024
If it's less dense does that mean you wouldn't be able to swim in it? You know what you must do.
It's also powdery. So maybe you can walk on it...
There is a thing called aerated water, it's used in water treatment, I guess to separate the 💩 out.
You can't swim in it, you will sink.
The density of the aerated water is low so the force of buoyancy is not high enough for people to float.
I don’t think you should swim in dry water if he was making a gas mask to I believe keep out the powder he added to the water.
@@dominicfindlay Aerated water can also be highly dangerous, even for boats, IIRC occasionally this can occur naturally though underwater volcanism and hydrothermal vents
@@StuffandThings_yeah a magma block under a water source makes downwards bubble columns
“I know what you all are thinking, How I keep my teeth so clean”
???
Nobody was thinking about your teeth lol
I mean I think I *have* noticed his teeth white sometime before but not particularly in this video or that moment lol
That was an example of what is called "a humorous link" in the business.
I'm only here for the teeth.
@@Lloocii Hell, yeah. I'm all about James' teeth.
🤔😁😁🙄😜
1:59 "lets try again to make sure its not a fluke" come on, you can say that it was fun and you wanted to see it again
Any more Lock Picking Lawyer viewers here?
@@jurjenbos228nothing on 1
Looks like he used the rest of the dry water to wash his hair 😂
What happens if you freeze dry water
Snow
Dry ice genius
Dry ice
@@Electrical.Perspective no.
@@Electrical.PerspectiveDry ice is CO2, genius
6:14 Hey, Thunderf00t's science paper😀
That's a name I haven't heard in a very long time
@@curtdammit He still making videos. Still on his Musk-boys basing crusade. Which is sort of sad.
@@laierr There's a lot of material to work with.... But it got old a long time ago.
@@kindlin I know, was following him since the dawn of RUclips, when he was had his epic clash with Hovind and VenomFangX.
And tbh, I learned a lot from his approach. And got really interested in biology thanks to him.
But when you get his approach, when you understand his line of thinking... all you left with is rather boring and toxic rants of the guy enjoying him being the smartest kid in the room.
I have extremely mixed feelings about that guy.
@@laierrIt doesn’t help that just because he’s smart in some areas he thinks he’s always right about everything.
This was a good one, interesting result, especially the first run.
In a cooking class:
"Teacher, I blew up my water."
Heavywater vs sodium
That would be expensive
@@DANGJOS and nothing would be different compared to normal water and sodium
@@anhondacivic6541except that the reaction would form sodium deutroxide (NaOD) instead of the normal sodium hydroxide or sodium protroxide (NaOP)
“There are inside experiments and outside experiments. I learned a long time ago, sodium is an outside experiment”. I cracked up up at that point and had to pause….
OMG! “I know what you’re thinking. How does he keep his teach so clean?” I love it!
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.
Everytime you think he’s out of questions to ask , he comes back with even deeper questions
I think the first explosion created micro cracks that were small enough that the glass didn't break. But the 2nd explosion made those initial cracks propagate till it fractured
That shameless plug is pure gold lol
I just assumed it was the constant shockwaves from explosions blasting the plaque off his teeth
What's even better to watch is first by pausing the video,(space bar), right on the explosion, (2:47). Then move one frame at a time,(comma [ , ] for back & period [ . ] for forward), to see the reaction and it's AWESOME...
Smoothest transition into sponsorship ever, 😂
The hair, the baggy lab coat, the double explosion - this is the day we'll remember that AL went from wholesome science explainer to mad scientist.
"I've also been prepping my hair with dry water 🙇👹". 😂
Him "Water is wet"
I will beat you
When Thunderf00t met The Action Lab.
"There's inside experiments and outside experiments"... This is a good physicist.
Yo that slo mo looks like a movie shot fr
I figured we'd get a constant sizzle till it was gone. Seems more like logarithmic growth.
It was a nice experiment thanks fella
>Yes, water can be wet. Don't get me started on that.
O I think I want to get you started on that.
A New Hair Style! I Love It.
30s in, my hypothesis is no, it won't react because it never makes contact. But if the coating is not complete and it can make contact then yes it will.
I will be interested to see sodium in ice (what I thought this was going to be when I read "dry water")
Is James slowly turning into Nicholas Cage?
The best part of this video is The slow motion explosion of sodium.
hey looks like u made a semi controlled sodium rocket
integzas next project??
This dudes hair looks like he ran a 100 yard dash in a 90 yard gym.
BOOM! and Seagull diarrhea is everywhere 😂 Awesome reaction 👍
This is not dry water. Dry water is H30, and electricity doesn't go in it
Thunderf00t research mentioned! :)
Does it count as a citation tho? 😁
i wish he go back to posting stuff like this instead of elon rants.
@@orbitONhigh indeed :) But well the horse is still not dead so...
@@morphles Yeah, he farms so much angry elon-stans engagement, it makes it financially insane to talk about anything but musk.
You should make a video on why water is wet
2:18 What teachers think when we see girls in school
Given how violent the explosion was. I found it most interesting the exploding material did not strike the glass shield protecting the camera.
Last time I was this early I ended up with twins
damn ☠☠
HUH??
awesome
Ayo📸
He fine as fuck XD
Sodium hydroxide also dissolves silica as well, forming sodium silicate.
6:12 You show the paper by Philip E. Mason, also known as Thunderf00t here on RUclips. You really should mention his videos where he explains the Coulomb explosion, and link to his alkali metal explosion videos in general.
Came to say, "I think I've seen that paper before..." :)
I wish Thunderfoot would do more experiments like that instead of constantly ranting about Elon Musk.
Ahh yes, basic laws of chemistry to tell me how to burn water
I absolutely love you enthusiasm!
Ambatublow😩 ahh explosion
What about magnesium? Would magnesium burn in dry water?
3:17
"I know what you all are thinking 'How does he keep his teeth so clean' "
Nah bro, that's just you
The fact that you can come up with so many interesting experiments is amazing ☺️
Yes, water can be wet. Don't get me started on that.
Are you a bot?
@@EGRJdoesn't seem like it
"that was surprising, Ive never seen it just burn like that, it didnt even explode"
**Cuts to the floor covered in nut water** 👀👀
is the explosion caused your hair style 😉
Oh lord... what happened? Not sure it's scientific but that happened to me once when I let a girlfriend cut my hair.
I found this one fascinating. My pre-experiment guess was that the fume silica around the microdroplets would sort of "insulate" the sodium from the water. But there would still be small explosions because the fume silicia isn't going to be perfectly covering all of the water. There will be some "uninsulated" drops of water with which the sodium can react. I expected the mini explosions to continue until the sodium was gone. I wasn't expecting the larger explosion that ended the first experiment. Maybe I was a little close - at least initially. But completely wrong on the second, as I figured it would just be the same.
I love how "dry water" is a thing lol
Your face is dry
You should try Novec 1230. This is a real dry water. It looks like water, but it doesn't make things wet and is also used to efficiently put out the fire.
Can you have dry water ice?
"i know what you all are thinking, how i keep my teeth so clean"
i underestimated bro's humor
on the point of sodium metal floating on liquid water, what if you place the sodium metal at the bottom first then drop the dry water on it?
"Nothing is happening"
Hold my beer
I assumed for his pearly white teeth he simply got real close to the beaker and smiled as the reaction happened.
I've been watching for a few years now. Your experiments are by far the most interesting and thorough. Very informative and understandable. I watch with my kids in hopes that they will become as interested in physics as i am, and have been. Ultimately that they will take that in a direction that i was never encouraged to. Thank you
My thoughts on what's happening:
The Silicon Powder forms a protective layer around the individual droplets. But they are inhomogeneous; some may have little gaps where liquid water and sodium can react. Because of the low direct reaction space, the reaction starts relatively slow, nevertheless generates a lot of heat. This ignites the formed H2 AND evaporates the encapsulated water droplets. In the gaseous form, the water won't be "protected" by the silicon powder and can react on a much bigger area with the sodium, accelerating the reaction's intensity more and more until it explodes.
Feels like the first video you showed when saying "dry water" wasn't dry water at all - it was the silica...
"So no explosion."
Wait, James. Whattya think that big "POP!" that made the container jump was?
4:22 no way the toothbrush has airplane mode 😂😂😂😂😂
3:11 that’s exactly what I was wondering 💀
i may be misremembering but there was another liquid ive seen, but cannot recall the formula of that is also called dry water, it might just be someone using hydrophobic powder on themselves and other objects but i think it was a slightly modified H2O formula that made it behave differently.
the differences are that that liquid looks and behaves exactly like water but does not "wet" anything put into it, i think the person stated it could be injested safely.
if it is a different substance it would be interesting to see sodium react to that kind of liquid
Of all the things I was thinking, I definitely wasn't thinking about your teeth LOL. Keep making these videos! I love them!!!
It’s an issue of surface coverage. Water plus sodium is 100% coverage. Dry water you have added a material that breaks up the coverage of water to the sodium changing the reaction time and behavior. Meaning smaller surface to react to.
(RUclips ate my post -- trying again) Actually, the first time putting sodium in dry water did have an explosion -- it was just much smaller than that of the second time. It didn't break the beaker, but it did blow out material with a very audible pop.
Also note that sodium hydroxide will react with the silica that was used to convert the water into dry water.
Generally, dry water is something different .. Maybe try that too
Wow! Thank you for taking my request🤩
Explosions and toothbrushes was just what I needed at 10:44 pm✨
"Oh no, nothing is happening"
Sodium: And I took that personally.
Really seems like and ideal collaboration opportunity with the slo mo guys!
Cool video, James, thanks!
6:12 - Great to see Thunderf00t in the quoted article. Great video! Thanks!
I learned something, and its that Hot Water is water on steroids.
Action Lab literally read my mind, i had dry water and sodium metal and was wondering the same!
Sodium in liquid nitrogen
Try it with Lithium. Lithium reacts with water less explosively, but also reacts with silica at high temperatures. Could be exciting.
It seemed obvious to me that the "dry water" would have much less contact with the sodium, with all the air and silica there. Sodium in "normal water" is almost totally surrounded by water, after the reaction has started mostly water vapor, because of the leidenfrost effect, but still water. Besides reaction products, obviously. Also, I suspect the sodium hydroxide dissolves, and by that disperses much better in water than "dry water".
One thing about that toothbrush, don't buy if you can only charge it with the cord on the botton of the base, you can't have it stand up to charge it.
6:25 That's from Thunderfoots paper. He's a scientist who also makes RUclips videos
It exploded both times?
That dry water splattering when it exploded stimulated something deep inside of me. 😳
Funny 0:45 inside experimenta and outside. Sodium is outside experiment. Second explosion is due first reacted and burned dry water. Second reacted to more liquid water since burning liquified some.
That experiment looked pretty violet to me.
Quote of the day: "Ok, something happened that time."
1:34 Yep, definitely an outdoor experiment.
Me trying to escape from the evil agents hunting me down when I ran and hide in my school lab: *marshmallow bomb*