More proof chickens are the spirit animals of chemistry. 1. Chicken poop? No, *Potassium Nitrate* 2. Chicken egg? No, *reagent-grade Calcium Carbonate* 3. Chicken leg? No, *perfect HF acid / Piranha solution demo*
12:13, this doesn't just look like concrete, you literally made a form of cement which is mainly composed of calcium oxide and hydroxide. Just mix this well with some silicon sand or gravel (adding some silicon dioxide, and aluminum oxide possibly) and let it slowly dry over a few days and you got yourself a nice bucket of concrete.
Almost like portland cement. But if you calcinate with fine sand, then it will much more like portland cement. edit: for better mixing only, if you already have super fine particles then you can simply mix stuff and you would get portland cement.
6:34 if an egg shell weighs 6 grams thats 166 eggs. which would take a family of four, each eating 2 eggs a day, about 3 weeks to eat. A hen lays ABOUT one egg every day so it would take a single chicken about 5.5 months to lay all those eggs, but we will be generous and give her 6. 6 months to produce one kg of eggshell.
Egg shells start of with egg shell membrane skins. They add plenty of nitrogen and carbon in a furnace, and needs oxygen to be burn off. Any remaining calcium carbonate is largly insoulable in water but about 1.99 grams of calcium hydroxide per liter of water at 0c will disolve. Knowing that, one can determin how much actual calcium hydroxide they are adding to the sodium carbonate, and aim for a stoichiometric ratio which would cause all the newly formed calcium carbonate to precipitate out at 100c (time to filter), a wash will clean the calcium carbonate crystals and leave sodium hydroxide dissolved in water. you can then evaporate the water off, preferably in a stainless steel pot to avoid disolving glass and further contamination. Sodium hydroxide monohydrate starts to convert to its anhydrous form at 300c and is completely anhydrous at 350c. Doing this should help increase the purity.
Ok? I hate to ask, but I had a 14 hour day as a water well technician, and I'm tired , and decided to have some peach Brandy.. was this a negative comment?
This video is beyond fascinating! That’s mind blowing cool how you were able to step through each transition for the material to get to the end result. I’ve always been facilitated in how all the various things in our science classrooms came to be.
The way you combine well-known procedures and ordinary precursors to something fascinating and completely new is always so well thought out - I really liked this unique concept from your first videos on. Keep on going like this. 👍 Btw: I guess magnesium shavings will work as well as powder, maybe even better, because with powder it may result in an unpleasent runaway reaction. And above all: shavings are quite easier and much less suspicious to get in the EU.
This video just gave me hope for my own try at the menthol catalyzed reduction process. I thought it failed because I didn't see any sodium, but it looked just like your mixture. I haven't gotten around to making my Dioxane but now I believe that I might very well have been successful. Homemade Sodium, that would be amazing.
BTW I heard from somewhere that you can make sodium hydroxide by electrolysis of boiling sodium carbonate solution with copper electrodes, boiling the blue solution to a dry blue solid, then extracting the sodium hydroxide with isopropanol where any carbonates aren't soluble in. The reactions are something like 2Cu+2NaCO3+2H2O---electrolysis-- ＞2Cu(OH)2CO3+2NaOH+H2 and Cu2(OH)2CO3 + 3Na2CO3 = 2Na2[Cu(CO3)2] + 2NaOH. Yet to verify this though
@@謝利米 Sodium hydroxide is so dirt cheap that making it isn't worth it. A Kilo of the impure drain cleaner stuff is like 5€. But that reaction seems to make basic copper carbonate, which is in itself a more interesting reagent, it can be used as a catalyst in certain reactions.
I'm really impressed with how much you got there. I was expecting a tiny little bit smaller than your little finger nail. But the amount you got there is actually useful. 👍
15:15 it almost looks like the beaker was refilled the way this was shot :-P When changing container sizes, it might be a good idea to show this happening, or keep the camera/zoom fixed so it's obvious that the larger beaker was swapped for a smaller one.
If you have had access to to a high temp still(in the 1100c range) you could actually also have used the carbothermal process to reduce the sodium carbonate. Altough it is a difficult method due to the high temperatures I have only seen maybe one person that used it.
The litium contamination is minimal. It reacts to form lithium hydroxide which is not reduced. Even if no water is present, it reacts with sodium snd magnesium hydroxide.
That concentrated sodium hydroxide solution is one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. It’s so concentrated it’s THICK. Getting it on your skin is probably worse than sulphur mustard. Great vid as always, thank you for putting your life at risk for our entertainment🫡
NaOH and CaOH are both common byproducts of electrolysis doing this with table salt and something like calcium nitrate or any calcium salt with a membrane will net you your hydroxide salts and the respective acid of whatever the other ion is seems like an easy way to get clean hydroxide if you use non reactive electrodes like graphite
I thought this was a fantastic video mate. It looked like fun to me.😊 Chemistry is a wonderful Science to learn and play with. It’s something to behold adding and subtracting something, then coming up with something totally different from what you started with.😊 10 out of 10 from me. Thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge and journey with me. 😊
I KNOW that smell. I have done very many calcium from egg shells experiments (doing another as I write this in fact!), and the first time I smelled it was when I put the egg shells in an almost identical can you used and put it in my lab toaster oven at 260°C hoping to burn off the protein membrane stuff before I put the shell part in the kiln. I was very suddenly introduced to that horrible smell and had to quickly move the whole mess outside before it permeated everything. I think my neighbors might hate me now, because even outside it was really awful!
Nice! How about a video showing how to make phosphorescent Calcium Sulfide? That'd be interesting because pure CaS isn't phosphorescent but (impure) CaS, from egg and oyster shells, is. You can discuss that "phosphorescent" doesn't mean Phosphorus is present and how various doping elements enhance the effect.
can you explain more the process to create sodium ? i try it several time like nuridrage, but one one time get very small yeld ... wich kind of mineral oil ? tmeperature ? etc ?
You can also buy crushed shells as a chicken feed supplement and bypass the whole chicken-egg intermediate. You can also buy slaked lime (Ca(OH)2) as a lawn fertilizer and bypass the whole chicken-egg-calcining-slaking intermediate. You can also buy sodium hydroxide and bypass the whole chicken-egg-calcination-slaking-precipiation intermediate. You can also just buy sodium metal. But we wouldn't be here right now lol. Bro's doing the Pyanodon Factorio treatment.
A possible reason why the sodium bicarbonate was so hard to make in the first step was possibly that the carbon dioxide being produced from the reaction was pooling at the bottom of the beaker, displacing the air, and preventing the o2 in the air from reacting to make h2o
Could you make a nautilius battery? According to the book it was a modified Daniell cell (sulphuric acid, sodium mercury amalgam and carbon electrode), or would that be just asking for an explosion?
You always figure out a way to turn something ordinary into amazing chemicals!👍 Btw, I think you somehow turned amateur chemistry into masochist chemistry at some point, there is so much work involved!
For someone who's already got access to less available substances like dioxane, it's a bit strange to use these time-consuming, messy and annoying routes of creating sodium carbonate and calcium hydroxide - just to create the ubiquitous, readily available sodium hydroxide...
I really enjoyed your chemistry video on how to extract sodium metal from baking soda. The only problem for me was that the narrator was speaking too fast with an accent that was difficult for me to understand. I’d actually have to go back and listen to it two or three times in order to catch everything that was said.
You do know that molten salt electrolysis exists, right? You could have electrolyzed molten sodium chloride producing chlorine gas and metallic sodium.
Man, I fucking love Nurdrage. What an inspiration, he is an OG amateur chem RUclipsr and completely independently developed a high yielding, low temperature, completely chemical-based route for creating sodium from otc ingredients. Also, as far as I’m aware, the “alcohol-catalyzed magnesium reduction method” as Nurdrage calls it is a sodium production method completely unknown by the scientific community at large until he developed it
Nice video! RUclips amateur chemistry is getting closer and closer to academic research: NurdRage's menthol technique is quoted on Wikipedia, and now we have independent replication of the experiment also on RUclips ;)
baking soda is very available as soda blasting medium, in very large quantities, in 25kg bags. Cao is your normal cement. without any sand or extra additives. also calcium oxide is easily extracted from wood/biomass burn ashes. yep fireplace wood fire itself makes all the reactions to directly get the CaO 50% and other stuff, potassium etc. so you basically do a cold thermite reaction between NaOH and Mg. also electrolysis of molten NaOH at 300C works easily. this video started from home equipment and ended up in the nilered lab.
@@GigsTaggart you know that those silicates are desiccants, to accelerate the solidification of the liquid cement. SiO2 alone is plaster as dust, CaO + SiO2 works just fine also, and the desiccant makes it stronger. its lime stone, not liquid.
There is an alternative route, which also involves eggshells (a downside is that high temperatures are required for an electrolysis step). React the eggshells (calcium carbonate) with dilute HCl to give calcium chloride. Do the same for the baking soda: react with HCl (gives NaCl). Evaporate the NaCl and CaCl2 to dryness (or as dry as you can get) then dry further in a dessicator. Electrolysis of molten NaCl, with CaCl2 added to lower the MP: Calcium chloride, CaCl2, is added to lower the melting point of the electrolytic cell medium (NaCl) from the normal melting point of NaCl, 804oC, to around 600oC. Obviously, 600C is still a very high temperature, so bear that in mind. Probably, an inert atmosphere (e.g. argon) would be required to protect the freshly-formed Na metal from oxidation at those high temperatures.
This video reminds me of the story of the stone soup. The eggs & baking soda are added to the pot, and the village later contributes lithium metal, menthol, and mineral oil.
You already know when someone has this accent that they're probably a mad scientist.
My Polish mad scientist list is growing 😈
@@janeczekdeliverservices7831 Bardzo dobry
Looks like Rednile's... 😅
He's an alchemist
He's literally my favorite.
More proof chickens are the spirit animals of chemistry.
1. Chicken poop? No, *Potassium Nitrate*
2. Chicken egg? No, *reagent-grade Calcium Carbonate*
3. Chicken leg? No, *perfect HF acid / Piranha solution demo*
Chicken bone? Calcium metal/White phosphorus
Chicken flesh and giblets?
Delicious 😋 meal.
Chicken feed? No, source of (impure) starch
Ah yes the 'technical grade' chicken bones prior to purification.
12:13, this doesn't just look like concrete, you literally made a form of cement which is mainly composed of calcium oxide and hydroxide. Just mix this well with some silicon sand or gravel (adding some silicon dioxide, and aluminum oxide possibly) and let it slowly dry over a few days and you got yourself a nice bucket of concrete.
Isn't this roughly the same way that early cements were formed as well?
Almost like portland cement. But if you calcinate with fine sand, then it will much more like portland cement.
edit: for better mixing only, if you already have super fine particles then you can simply mix stuff and you would get portland cement.
@@GuyNamedSean Yes. IIRC this is thought to be one of the components of Roman concrete.
its an alternive crafting recepie
Amazing how cement is made from quicklime
8:05 As a wise australian once said "goddamn chicken gas"
"wise"
THE EXPLOSIONS&FIRE CHICKEN GAS IS BACK LET'S GOOO
6:34 if an egg shell weighs 6 grams thats 166 eggs. which would take a family of four, each eating 2 eggs a day, about 3 weeks to eat. A hen lays ABOUT one egg every day so it would take a single chicken about 5.5 months to lay all those eggs, but we will be generous and give her 6. 6 months to produce one kg of eggshell.
Oh no it's a deadly crossive chicken gas
Eg
Wait that's not NileRed
Polak to jest na stówe
This is what happens when NileRed starts taste-testing recipes from the Anarchist’s Cookbook.😂
0:03 It feels weird not hearing this song switch audio quality every line
Weit a second. In 20:39 you have a bottle. And there is writen "uwaga". "Uwaga" is Polish word for warning.
I'm Polish :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry Też jestem Polakiem.
Chicken gas mentioned!!🎉
Sir, I respect you. Sincerely, PhD chemist
Egg shells start of with egg shell membrane skins. They add plenty of nitrogen and carbon in a furnace, and needs oxygen to be burn off. Any remaining calcium carbonate is largly insoulable in water but about 1.99 grams of calcium hydroxide per liter of water at 0c will disolve. Knowing that, one can determin how much actual calcium hydroxide they are adding to the sodium carbonate, and aim for a stoichiometric ratio which would cause all the newly formed calcium carbonate to precipitate out at 100c (time to filter), a wash will clean the calcium carbonate crystals and leave sodium hydroxide dissolved in water. you can then evaporate the water off, preferably in a stainless steel pot to avoid disolving glass and further contamination. Sodium hydroxide monohydrate starts to convert to its anhydrous form at 300c and is completely anhydrous at 350c.
Doing this should help increase the purity.
Great videos as always Nile.... wait.
stop doing Chemistry, you are making Atoms unhappy
Atom lives matter
He's just not an atom pleaser
egg
Ok? I hate to ask, but I had a 14 hour day as a water well technician, and I'm tired , and decided to have some peach Brandy.. was this a negative comment?
I’ll split them atoms like a pie!
this reminds me of how salt isn't dangerous, but alone Sodium and Chlorine defiantly are!
This video is beyond fascinating! That’s mind blowing cool how you were able to step through each transition for the material to get to the end result. I’ve always been facilitated in how all the various things in our science classrooms came to be.
Thought this was a NileRed video for a moment
The way you combine well-known procedures and ordinary precursors to something fascinating and completely new is always so well thought out - I really liked this unique concept from your first videos on. Keep on going like this. 👍
Btw: I guess magnesium shavings will work as well as powder, maybe even better, because with powder it may result in an unpleasent runaway reaction. And above all: shavings are quite easier and much less suspicious to get in the EU.
This video just gave me hope for my own try at the menthol catalyzed reduction process. I thought it failed because I didn't see any sodium, but it looked just like your mixture. I haven't gotten around to making my Dioxane but now I believe that I might very well have been successful. Homemade Sodium, that would be amazing.
BTW I heard from somewhere that you can make sodium hydroxide by electrolysis of boiling sodium carbonate solution with copper electrodes, boiling the blue solution to a dry blue solid, then extracting the sodium hydroxide with isopropanol where any carbonates aren't soluble in. The reactions are something like 2Cu+2NaCO3+2H2O---electrolysis-- ＞2Cu(OH)2CO3+2NaOH+H2 and Cu2(OH)2CO3 + 3Na2CO3 = 2Na2[Cu(CO3)2] + 2NaOH. Yet to verify this though
@@謝利米 Sodium hydroxide is so dirt cheap that making it isn't worth it. A Kilo of the impure drain cleaner stuff is like 5€. But that reaction seems to make basic copper carbonate, which is in itself a more interesting reagent, it can be used as a catalyst in certain reactions.
I'm really impressed with how much you got there. I was expecting a tiny little bit smaller than your little finger nail. But the amount you got there is actually useful. 👍
love the nilered-inspired editing style and putting it through a much more casual vibe. feels more distinct despite the very similar look :D
How is chemistry even real goddamn turning an egg into sodium metal is insane
15:15 it almost looks like the beaker was refilled the way this was shot :-P When changing container sizes, it might be a good idea to show this happening, or keep the camera/zoom fixed so it's obvious that the larger beaker was swapped for a smaller one.
Cool video about Natrium.
If you have had access to to a high temp still(in the 1100c range) you could actually also have used the carbothermal process to reduce the sodium carbonate.
Altough it is a difficult method due to the high temperatures I have only seen maybe one person that used it.
The litium contamination is minimal. It reacts to form lithium hydroxide which is not reduced. Even if no water is present, it reacts with sodium snd magnesium hydroxide.
That concentrated sodium hydroxide solution is one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. It’s so concentrated it’s THICK. Getting it on your skin is probably worse than sulphur mustard.
Great vid as always, thank you for putting your life at risk for our entertainment🫡
Eggs are how I pH my garden up, they have a lot of calcium sulfate too
22:34 The delivery of this line timing each hazard to the demo is perfect. Bravo.
NaOH and CaOH are both common byproducts of electrolysis doing this with table salt and something like calcium nitrate or any calcium salt with a membrane will net you your hydroxide salts and the respective acid of whatever the other ion is seems like an easy way to get clean hydroxide if you use non reactive electrodes like graphite
I thought this was a fantastic video mate. It looked like fun to me.😊 Chemistry is a wonderful Science to learn and play with. It’s something to behold adding and subtracting something, then coming up with something totally different from what you started with.😊 10 out of 10 from me. Thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge and journey with me. 😊
i did something similar in my kiln with oyster shells. my glass studio smelled like low tide for a while.
Next challange: Make baking soda from scratch to make sodium metal ^^
Excellent demonstration as always
I KNOW that smell. I have done very many calcium from egg shells experiments (doing another as I write this in fact!), and the first time I smelled it was when I put the egg shells in an almost identical can you used and put it in my lab toaster oven at 260°C hoping to burn off the protein membrane stuff before I put the shell part in the kiln.
I was very suddenly introduced to that horrible smell and had to quickly move the whole mess outside before it permeated everything. I think my neighbors might hate me now, because even outside it was really awful!
Goddamn chicken gas
Nice! How about a video showing how to make phosphorescent Calcium Sulfide? That'd be interesting because pure CaS isn't phosphorescent but (impure) CaS, from egg and oyster shells, is. You can discuss that "phosphorescent" doesn't mean Phosphorus is present and how various doping elements enhance the effect.
I love that you willingly admit your atrocious accent in the video description. I will turn on the subtitles, thank you!
Next can you turn sodium metal into baking soda and eggs?!?!?!
Chicken smoke... Don't breathe this!
Cool bro this is actually a pretty cool idea
I had something similar, had some sulphur based gas escape, was almost nothing but the lab stinked for super long like some kind of sewer.
"Contaminated with lithium from batteries" how? what batteries? at what point did you use batteries?
9:55 how would you explain this to the police lol
And this is so freaking cool I have to try this method of making sodium someday
"Dooo da da doo da da daa doo" ... This can mean only one thing! Amature chemistry dropped a new bannger! :D
Oh wow i didnt expect you to do the new nurd rage reaction for the sodium, great video!
I'm assuming this will use egglectricity.
-edit
nope. meggnesium.
No eggtricity
The intro had me thinking I was listening to the old mate senny huh duh sixhungies.
13:00 very large EGGcess 🤣🤣🤣
can you explain more the process to create sodium ? i try it several time like nuridrage, but one one time get very small yeld ... wich kind of mineral oil ? tmeperature ? etc ?
the default chemistry noise 🔥
Wow, what a process!
Much easier (don't try this at home...) is electrolysis of molten salt.
That's not easy at all. It is really difficult to prevent the sodium from oxidising at these temperatures
If you'd have used a little bit carb to boil the eggs, the shell would've just fallen off. Cooking tip there for all boiled egg lovers.
Love it. Explody metal made from chickens.
Your voice is so soothing
What about melting sodium chloride and using electrolysis to pull out the sodium and chlorine gas.
I like the fact that you already had the sodium hydroxide😂
5:56 carbonate rocks are literally everywhere
find a geologic map of your area find exposed limestone and collect as much as you need
You can also buy crushed shells as a chicken feed supplement and bypass the whole chicken-egg intermediate.
You can also buy slaked lime (Ca(OH)2) as a lawn fertilizer and bypass the whole chicken-egg-calcining-slaking intermediate.
You can also buy sodium hydroxide and bypass the whole chicken-egg-calcination-slaking-precipiation intermediate.
You can also just buy sodium metal. But we wouldn't be here right now lol. Bro's doing the Pyanodon Factorio treatment.
Exactly @defenestrated23 sometimes it's more fun to bake a cake from scratch than to just buy one
It’s called entertainment holy fuck dude
Buy agricultural lime, or masons hydrated lime. Easy and pre-powdered.
@@Absitiam so the entertainment part is his family eating eggs and collecting the shells?
because otherwise its completely the same
The nurd rage sodium synthesis yeah!
Publicly reproducing results is the highest form of flattery.
Finally, non vegan metal
We got non vegan sodium before GTA6🗣️🗣️‼️
It seems no wonder that people tried to use alchemy to make gold, after seeing this
that coffe filter became an antistress toy
The powdered magnesium made my heart stop wtf
You can directly electrolyse the baking soda
No. Baking soda doesn't even melt
A possible reason why the sodium bicarbonate was so hard to make in the first step was possibly that the carbon dioxide being produced from the reaction was pooling at the bottom of the beaker, displacing the air, and preventing the o2 in the air from reacting to make h2o
Air is not involved in the reaction
Could you make a nautilius battery?
According to the book it was a modified Daniell cell (sulphuric acid, sodium mercury amalgam and carbon electrode), or would that be just asking for an explosion?
For one. I’m loving the accent
Why do I smell burning earbuds
u are so creative
Is it possible to use the same method to obtain potassium metal from potassium hydroxide?
Nurdrage also did a video about that (taken down but mirrored) but I think some had repeatability issues with it
@hantrio4327 what problems? so if it is possible to carry it out? and why deletion, censorship?
@@eseeseese8987 It just didn't work for some people but it did for others or with some tweaks
It would be interesting to see how sodium reacts with glycerol, and then to try glycerolysis of a triglyceride with that product.
The return of chicken gas on chemistry youtube........
You always figure out a way to turn something ordinary into amazing chemicals!👍
Btw, I think you somehow turned amateur chemistry into masochist chemistry at some point, there is so much work involved!
For someone who's already got access to less available substances like dioxane, it's a bit strange to use these time-consuming, messy and annoying routes of creating sodium carbonate and calcium hydroxide - just to create the ubiquitous, readily available sodium hydroxide...
fantastic video
Thanks!
I really enjoyed your chemistry video on how to extract sodium metal from baking soda. The only problem for me was that the narrator was speaking too fast with an accent that was difficult for me to understand. I’d actually have to go back and listen to it two or three times in order to catch everything that was said.
Why didn't you directly electrolysise the sodium hidroxide?😅😅
You do know that molten salt electrolysis exists, right?
You could have electrolyzed molten sodium chloride producing chlorine gas and metallic sodium.
What kind of mineral oil is used?
Man, I fucking love Nurdrage. What an inspiration, he is an OG amateur chem RUclipsr and completely independently developed a high yielding, low temperature, completely chemical-based route for creating sodium from otc ingredients. Also, as far as I’m aware, the “alcohol-catalyzed magnesium reduction method” as Nurdrage calls it is a sodium production method completely unknown by the scientific community at large until he developed it
Nice video!
RUclips amateur chemistry is getting closer and closer to academic research: NurdRage's menthol technique is quoted on Wikipedia, and now we have independent replication of the experiment also on RUclips ;)
Can't you in Poland just buy CaO and react it with water? In Russia we use it in construction (i don't know why exactly) so we can just buy it
I just make sodium carbonate in the oven on a baking sheet. Fast and easy
NaCl - Sodium Chloride ............ isn't that just plain white table salt???
Where you pick up that furnace?
0:28 egg
Amazing work 😂 i am sure you happy with this over
If fallout happens im bunking with this guy
Hit me up if ya need more eggs lol, my family has a lot of extra.
GODDAMN CHICKEN GAS
😂 you are not normal. Love it
hey. great video. very refreshing. thanks for sharing your knowledge.
chalk would be much cheaper and cleaner calcium carbonate. still fun though.
Way easier that what Mr.Green did
Its abive my skills but its fun to watch! The first chemists long ago had to be very primitive. Alchemy!😊
My man🙌🏼
baking soda is very available as soda blasting medium, in very large quantities, in 25kg bags. Cao is your normal cement. without any sand or extra additives. also calcium oxide is easily extracted from wood/biomass burn ashes. yep fireplace wood fire itself makes all the reactions to directly get the CaO 50% and other stuff, potassium etc. so you basically do a cold thermite reaction between NaOH and Mg. also electrolysis of molten NaOH at 300C works easily. this video started from home equipment and ended up in the nilered lab.
Cement is not calcium oxide. It is a mix of calcium silicates primarily.
@@GigsTaggart no, cement is mostly CaO, sand and those others are additives for some strange reason
@@GigsTaggart SiO2 is sand mostly, and CaO is the binder, and additives accelerate the CaO sand mix binding and makes it stronger.
@@gsestream that is not how it works. It's bound in the silicate lattice, not just mixed together. You can't substitute cement for lime.
@@GigsTaggart you know that those silicates are desiccants, to accelerate the solidification of the liquid cement. SiO2 alone is plaster as dust, CaO + SiO2 works just fine also, and the desiccant makes it stronger. its lime stone, not liquid.
There is an alternative route, which also involves eggshells (a downside is that high temperatures are required for an electrolysis step).
React the eggshells (calcium carbonate) with dilute HCl to give calcium chloride. Do the same for the baking soda: react with HCl (gives NaCl). Evaporate the NaCl and CaCl2 to dryness (or as dry as you can get) then dry further in a dessicator.
Electrolysis of molten NaCl, with CaCl2 added to lower the MP:
Calcium chloride, CaCl2, is added to lower the melting point of the electrolytic cell medium (NaCl) from the normal melting point of NaCl, 804oC, to around 600oC. Obviously, 600C is still a very high temperature, so bear that in mind. Probably, an inert atmosphere (e.g. argon) would be required to protect the freshly-formed Na metal from oxidation at those high temperatures.
This video reminds me of the story of the stone soup. The eggs & baking soda are added to the pot, and the village later contributes lithium metal, menthol, and mineral oil.