Hi Feliks, beautiful exposition as always. However, it is worth noting that you are actually witnessing something *even more rare and exotic here* than the blue color of solvated electrons - in fact, you are also seeing the violet color of pure sodium gas. If you go to 5:00 in the video you can notice the violet color is not "adhered" to the surface of the metal droplet in the way the solvated electrons are, but rather floats around along with the droplet like a foggy haze. The vapor of potassium is green and that of sodium is violet for the same reason the vapor of iodine is colored, it exists as a homonuclear diatomic gas of Na2, and the electronic states of the molecule are vibronically coupled to the vibrational modes of the two atoms comprising the molecule, causing a multitude of regularly spaced absorption peaks throughout the visible region of the spectrum. Like iodine vapor, it should also fluoresce when irradiated with high energy light!!
The paper mentioned "part of the metal evaporated". Can you explain the orange swirls in the droplet as the molten hydroxide/metal gets clearer before becoming pure sodium hydroxide?
@@pattheplanter haven't the slightest idea, but if I had to guess I'd say something to do with the shifting absorption band wavelengths with respect to temperature as seen on the combined spectral plots near the end.
@@pattheplanter I was thinking about this too. After some thought I speculate that it is the last bits of metal dissolved in the hydroxide. You can see that, as soon as the swirls appear, transparent orange appears right next to opaque blue. That indicates to me the it's not due to the droplet being red hot, but rather the last bits of sodium and potassium (maybe in clusters???).
Couldn't it be blackbody radiation? NaK has a boiling point of 785C, which is well into the orange range. It's basically just red-hot metal because its been kept from blowing itself apart and continued to react with the surface. I bet if you look at other videos of alkali metals getting thrown in water, you'd see orange globs of molten metal skittering across the surface due to the leidenfrost effect as well
@@jaywerner1648 I believe that if it were above the Draper point of 525C the view of the internal swirling blue solvated electrons would be obscured. I have seen these spheres incandescently glowing in other videos though. A simple test would be to turn out the lights while recording!
Awesome! Just wanted to make clear for your viewers that "liquid ammonia" here means cryogenic anhydrous ammonia, NOT ammonia dissolved in water (which is what household ammonia is). The NaK would explode on contact with the ammonia water.
I've first seen solvated electrons on Thunderf00t's channel. Your slow motion shots are fantastic as always! Amazing to see this phenomenon in such great detail. Thanks for the video!
I knew of NaK from an amateur interest in nuclear energy, but seeing it with ammonia and steam was new! Thank you for putting your cameras in harm's way to get this!
I read in a paper that at very high concentrations solvated electrons start to behave like a metal, switching the color from blue to gold. Do you reckon that's what we're seeing when the NaK droplet hits the ammonia at 3:15?
If you want to see the beautiful colour it makes, check out Applied Science's videos on distilling ammonia. He dissolved a bunch of lithium metal, and it turned this beautiful metallic bronze colour in the test tube!
Hi Feliks, really asthonishing footage! @2:20 I think it's one of our best "simulation" of what happens when two black holes / neutron stars / stars collide, collapse and finally merge in a single entity! Congratulations! *FANTASTIC* !!!
ThoiSoi and Thunderf00t have both pursued many experiments with Na, K, and NaK. these elements are endlessly fascinating and i hope the chemistry community never stops experimenting with them.
Lay a piece of filter paper across a petri dish full of water so that it becomes wet. Drop a small piece of sodium on top. You will see many of the same effects including the solvated electron blue colour, spontaneous ignition and a clear bead of hydroxide that later explodes. Simple and illustrative.
Awesome. I remember a time when finding footage of this experiment on the internet was hard to come by. It's so cool seeing more and more papers (and subsequent footage) of this effect-and all the little details people are now studying/writing about/experimenting with
I love the blues that come from oxidation and reactions. My first 'experience' seeing it was as a welder when drilling mild steel would create blue chips and strands. Seeing that reminds me if the colour.
These blobs of liquid metal have quite the surface tension. I've only worked with gallium-based liquid metal alloys for electronics cooling before, but they seem to have very similar physical properties.
Hands down the most cinematic chemistry channel on RUclips.A perfect amalgamation of visual art and science. I’ve been hooked ever since I saw the cold phosphorus flame video which was a cinematographic masterpiece.
Капля расплавленного гидроксида на поверхности воды, как бы наполненная оранжевым дымом, постепенно становящаяся прозрачной - это одно из самых красивы вещей, которые я видел!
These videos are so enthralling that I'm always half-way through before realizing that I'm watching at 480 and I have to turn up the quality tobwatch it again.
Video photograph - outstanding. Experimental design - outstanding. Concept - outstanding. Must win some award! Going back on my Patreon support list. Thank you.
I love studying chemistry, because sometimes it's more like "look at all these materials, techniques, compouds etc that revolutionised our lives" and other times it's like "look at this cool blue solution i made, isn't it neat :)"
Would you consider leaving on a red cloth regular table lamp in the bedroom and a tubular vintage oval bulb desk lamp in the office, and seeing which type of bulb burns out first after a while, "doing an experiment" ? ., ;
I notice that the paper you referenced had Phil Mason's name on it. That's who's channel i first saw this phenomenon on but not filmed as clearly as this. I think Phil/Thunderf00t would love to see this.
I had seen drops of alkalai metals turning colorless before popping on the surface of water and had wondered what was going on there. Hydroxide droplets make perfect sense!
I love it thanks!! I always love watching sodium and potassium getting cut like butter before inevitable explosions! But I've never seen it turn blue like that, that was amazing with the slow motion!
I imagine if we could see atoms reacting and forming bonds with our eyes it would look like those beautiful slow motion shots of the NaK balls merging. Great camera work!!
It seems so obvious to me now that water would produce these results too since ammonia does, but I genuinely did not even consider for a second this was possible. Awesome :D
It appears that not to many of you chemists out there are aware that all humans have around 5 milligrams of sodium and potassium contained in a little pea sized sack called the sino atrial valve. It is found on the left side of your heart and it provides the O.01 voltage that provides the electrical energy needed to operate your heart and brain. Great video Felix, Rory, Tasmania.
I knew of this phenomenon because of Applied Science's video about liquid ammonia. He dissolved lithium metal into a test tube of it, and at first it was blue like yours because of the solvated electrons. But then it turned this absolutely BEAUTIFUL metallic bronze colour. Apparently these solvated electron solutions are excellent conductors, which makes sense, but I'd like to see someone actually pass a current through it and measure the voltage drop. Would be interesting to see what class of conductor it is. Wouldn't be a superconductor but probably so conductive it's be hard to measure.
That same blue color appears as potassium slowly cools in the presence of a long chain tertiary alcohol. Tetrahydrolinalool and dihydromyrcenol both work. It may just be a refractory thing on the surface of semi-molten potassium, but if that's the case it is a very convincing imitation. The presence of lithium metal makes it happen more consistently, though molten lithium does some really strange things to mineral oil.
The color depends on the concentration. The color shifts from a blue, to bronze gold color, depending on the concentration of solvated electrons. The reason for the specific color is unknown, but is seen in all examples of proven solvated electron reactions.
Would you consider leaving on a red cloth table lamp in the bedroom and a tubular vintage oval bulb lamp in the office, and seeing which type of bulb burns out first, doing an experiment?
It's mesmerizing watching a coulombic explosion in slow motion as all it's protective electrons bleed away instead of detonating and the final naked Sodium/Potassium mix reacts all at once with the water.
I remember seeing an old Open University demonstration where Sodium metal was dissolved in liquefied Ammonia gas producing the intense dark inky blue of solvated electrons, then a cyclic crown ether was added to clathrate half of the Sodium cations, resulting in an ionic complex obtainable as a golden crystalline solid when the ammonia was evaporated, a sort of sodium salt of itself.
I have heard of this effect before with water (I think from one of Phil Mason's videos) and have seen the ammonia version first hand (along with bronze-phase Na/NH3). The slow motion of the NaK drops coalescing was great. I wonder if the beating heart experiment (mercury, iron nail, sulfuric acid and an oxidizer in a watch glass) would look as interesting in slow mo?
I regularly make NaK for my students and they are always impressed by the reactivity. So it seems contradictory to use it as coolant in nuclear reactors, yet it is done, because of it’s thermal conductivity and fluidity at room temperature.
Seeing how the liquid blobs combine, I wonder if it's possible to make a NaK lava lamp. Maybe with a clear inert liquid with a similar density to NaK and sealing it in glass container filled with argon.
A company called Teledyne-Commodore used sodium-NH3 solvated electron back in the 90's and early '00's. I worked for them. You can look up the applications and details. The chemical reduction process was paired with a high pressure cutting jet that used liquid NH3 to cut into objects to obtain chemical materials that were to be reacted with the solvated electron solution.
Hey Feliks! If Na-K alloy is so much more reactive than Na or K on their own, I wonder how reactive what an alloy made of all the alkali metals would be! (Just a random idea occurred to me.) Would be great if you could show experiments with such an alloy, if possible, or just a Rb-Cs alloy. Thank you.
I always assumed the increased reactivity of NaK was due to it being a liquid at room temperature - allowing more material to transport freely to surfaces of reactivity, instead of reacting then remaining in place to hinder further reaction like in a solid. I suspect other eutectic mixtures of alkali metals will do the same.
thunderfoot also explored these phenomena. though you didn't explain why might me the reasons the NaK alloy seems to turn transparent before exploding. Fantastic video!
Beautiful! I did not know the hydrogen combustion in alkali metal + water reactions was what caused the explosion so that NaK in water under an inert atmosphere was mind-blowing!
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Hi Feliks, beautiful exposition as always. However, it is worth noting that you are actually witnessing something *even more rare and exotic here* than the blue color of solvated electrons - in fact, you are also seeing the violet color of pure sodium gas. If you go to 5:00 in the video you can notice the violet color is not "adhered" to the surface of the metal droplet in the way the solvated electrons are, but rather floats around along with the droplet like a foggy haze. The vapor of potassium is green and that of sodium is violet for the same reason the vapor of iodine is colored, it exists as a homonuclear diatomic gas of Na2, and the electronic states of the molecule are vibronically coupled to the vibrational modes of the two atoms comprising the molecule, causing a multitude of regularly spaced absorption peaks throughout the visible region of the spectrum. Like iodine vapor, it should also fluoresce when irradiated with high energy light!!
The paper mentioned "part of the metal evaporated". Can you explain the orange swirls in the droplet as the molten hydroxide/metal gets clearer before becoming pure sodium hydroxide?
@@pattheplanter haven't the slightest idea, but if I had to guess I'd say something to do with the shifting absorption band wavelengths with respect to temperature as seen on the combined spectral plots near the end.
@@pattheplanter I was thinking about this too. After some thought I speculate that it is the last bits of metal dissolved in the hydroxide. You can see that, as soon as the swirls appear, transparent orange appears right next to opaque blue. That indicates to me the it's not due to the droplet being red hot, but rather the last bits of sodium and potassium (maybe in clusters???).
Couldn't it be blackbody radiation? NaK has a boiling point of 785C, which is well into the orange range. It's basically just red-hot metal because its been kept from blowing itself apart and continued to react with the surface.
I bet if you look at other videos of alkali metals getting thrown in water, you'd see orange globs of molten metal skittering across the surface due to the leidenfrost effect as well
@@jaywerner1648 I believe that if it were above the Draper point of 525C the view of the internal swirling blue solvated electrons would be obscured. I have seen these spheres incandescently glowing in other videos though. A simple test would be to turn out the lights while recording!
Awesome! Just wanted to make clear for your viewers that "liquid ammonia" here means cryogenic anhydrous ammonia, NOT ammonia dissolved in water (which is what household ammonia is). The NaK would explode on contact with the ammonia water.
So its not piss...?
@niji4894 piss isn't just ammonia, but, yes, it's not pịss. Average, healthy adult urine contains around 1 mg/L ammonia.
@@Arycke i meant that as a joke. My bad if that didn't get through.
@niji4894 no apologies necessary! I didn't know if it was a joke or not, haha. I just figured I'd answer nonetheless cx
I've first seen solvated electrons on Thunderf00t's channel. Your slow motion shots are fantastic as always! Amazing to see this phenomenon in such great detail. Thanks for the video!
The paper he shows is from philip mason witch is no other than thunderfoot ;)
Same. Wasn't it TF who also submitted one of the earlier papers into the journal too?
@@dedr4m yes he discovered the Coulomb explosion and did a lot of the research NaK! Yeah, science!
I remember when thunderfoot used to be good. Now he's just shit.
Honestly wish he did more of the cool science stuff, instead of the reactionary opinionated stuff he often brings out these days.
I knew of NaK from an amateur interest in nuclear energy, but seeing it with ammonia and steam was new! Thank you for putting your cameras in harm's way to get this!
This was such a neat phenomenon when Dr. Mason published it. So cool to see the work being recreated by another fabulous RUclips chemist. Thank you!
This is wonderful!! 🤩 Even Thunderfoot and Periodic videos didn't know what this effect was when the droplets turned transparent!! 😁👍 you did it!! 😃😄🎉
This video is mesmerizing. I added it to my psychedelic playlist will watch again when Im tripping
That's a great idea. 👍🏻 Micro Dosin is MEDICINE!!!! 🍄 🍄 🍄 🍄
God I love Sodium and Potassium! Two of the coolest elements, in my opinion. Especially when mixed together and in large amounts.
You sure have a NaK for these things, don't you? Hah, get it? Knack? NaK? Okay, I'll stop...
😅😅😂
Knack nak, who's there?
That was good! Don’t stop! 😂
Get out! 👉
I thought "should I make a chemistry joke?" But then I thought "Na"
I read in a paper that at very high concentrations solvated electrons start to behave like a metal, switching the color from blue to gold. Do you reckon that's what we're seeing when the NaK droplet hits the ammonia at 3:15?
If you want to see the beautiful colour it makes, check out Applied Science's videos on distilling ammonia. He dissolved a bunch of lithium metal, and it turned this beautiful metallic bronze colour in the test tube!
You are the best in making Videos of chemical reactions. I love your Videos, thank you.
Hi Feliks, really asthonishing footage! @2:20 I think it's one of our best "simulation" of what happens when two black holes / neutron stars / stars collide, collapse and finally merge in a single entity! Congratulations! *FANTASTIC* !!!
That's really nifty stuff. The slow-mo oscillations of the drops as they merge is fascinating, as is the brief appearance of the blue colour.
ThoiSoi and Thunderf00t have both pursued many experiments with Na, K, and NaK. these elements are endlessly fascinating and i hope the chemistry community never stops experimenting with them.
The second guy you mentioned is the first author of the paper linked in the description.
The main author of the paper he's referring to is Phillip E Mason. a.k.a. Thunderf00t. It's great to see so many RUclipsrs now picking up on it.
@@roriegilligan8134 Wow youTube didn't show me your comment before I typed mine. Glad there's a few of us who noticed!
Lay a piece of filter paper across a petri dish full of water so that it becomes wet. Drop a small piece of sodium on top. You will see many of the same effects including the solvated electron blue colour, spontaneous ignition and a clear bead of hydroxide that later explodes.
Simple and illustrative.
Awesome. I remember a time when finding footage of this experiment on the internet was hard to come by. It's so cool seeing more and more papers (and subsequent footage) of this effect-and all the little details people are now studying/writing about/experimenting with
I love the blues that come from oxidation and reactions. My first 'experience' seeing it was as a welder when drilling mild steel would create blue chips and strands. Seeing that reminds me if the colour.
These blobs of liquid metal have quite the surface tension. I've only worked with gallium-based liquid metal alloys for electronics cooling before, but they seem to have very similar physical properties.
Hands down the most cinematic chemistry channel on RUclips.A perfect amalgamation of visual art and science. I’ve been hooked ever since I saw the cold phosphorus flame video which was a cinematographic masterpiece.
Thunderf00t did some incredible work with this phenomenon and is an expert on alkali metals.
Капля расплавленного гидроксида на поверхности воды, как бы наполненная оранжевым дымом, постепенно становящаяся прозрачной - это одно из самых красивы вещей, которые я видел!
These videos are so enthralling that I'm always half-way through before realizing that I'm watching at 480 and I have to turn up the quality tobwatch it again.
After watching this video I can't help but think this fella must have the ability to make some truly exotic and outright Kick Ass lava lamps!!! 🤠👍
Video photograph - outstanding. Experimental design - outstanding. Concept - outstanding. Must win some award! Going back on my Patreon support list. Thank you.
Welcome back! :D
I'm shocked your channel doesn't have more subscribers considering how amazing your work is.
The slowmotion is WOW just WOW.
Theres a lot to lurn from that! Thank you!
Cool chemistry aside, watching those alloy blobs merge was frickin DECENT
Breathtakingly beautiful reactions. Highly recommend this to chemistry teachers 🤓❤
I also highly recommend this to common core 🤓🤓🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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I love studying chemistry, because sometimes it's more like "look at all these materials, techniques, compouds etc that revolutionised our lives" and other times it's like "look at this cool blue solution i made, isn't it neat :)"
Would you consider leaving on a red cloth regular table lamp in the bedroom and a tubular vintage oval bulb desk lamp in the office, and seeing which type of bulb burns out first after a while, "doing an experiment" ? ., ;
One of the best chemistry experiments ever recorded
I notice that the paper you referenced had Phil Mason's name on it.
That's who's channel i first saw this phenomenon on but not filmed as clearly as this.
I think Phil/Thunderf00t would love to see this.
I had seen drops of alkalai metals turning colorless before popping on the surface of water and had wondered what was going on there. Hydroxide droplets make perfect sense!
bubbles coming together is so cool in slow motion never expected it to quite literaly be like mitosis in reverse that is wild
I love it thanks!! I always love watching sodium and potassium getting cut like butter before inevitable explosions! But I've never seen it turn blue like that, that was amazing with the slow motion!
This is an active area of my research! Glad to see it featured on this channel!
I imagine if we could see atoms reacting and forming bonds with our eyes it would look like those beautiful slow motion shots of the NaK balls merging. Great camera work!!
i dont work in labs anymore so this is the closest ill probably ever get to witnessing electric blue. and it's beautiful! tysm
The slow mo shots are a testament to the relation of gravity and surface tension.
It seems so obvious to me now that water would produce these results too since ammonia does, but I genuinely did not even consider for a second this was possible. Awesome :D
That could be the coolest thing I've ever seen filmed!
dangerous light sparks
Footage of you cutting alkali metals is oddly satisfying!
This was a great one! A very unique spin on the original solvated electron demonstration.
the slow mo footage of the droplets merging was fantastic!
Raindroplets and hot water meter
The slo-mo shots are amazing; like real computer graphics!
such beautiful footage! i had no idea water could solvate electrons this way. such a fascinating phenomenon.
It appears that not to many of you chemists out there are aware that all humans have around 5 milligrams of sodium and potassium contained in a little pea sized sack called the sino atrial valve. It is found on the left side of your heart and it provides the O.01 voltage that provides the electrical energy needed to operate your heart and brain. Great video Felix, Rory, Tasmania.
i knew e- are blue but never seen such beautiful footage
I remember dr Phil Mason doing this last year and its amazing seeing solvated eletrons
Absolutely amazing experiments...how do you even imagine lighting a match with water... Brilliant!
I knew of this phenomenon because of Applied Science's video about liquid ammonia. He dissolved lithium metal into a test tube of it, and at first it was blue like yours because of the solvated electrons. But then it turned this absolutely BEAUTIFUL metallic bronze colour. Apparently these solvated electron solutions are excellent conductors, which makes sense, but I'd like to see someone actually pass a current through it and measure the voltage drop. Would be interesting to see what class of conductor it is. Wouldn't be a superconductor but probably so conductive it's be hard to measure.
Really cool! I always had the idea that they would be more light blue like lightning or the Cherenkov radiation blue color
That same blue color appears as potassium slowly cools in the presence of a long chain tertiary alcohol. Tetrahydrolinalool and dihydromyrcenol both work. It may just be a refractory thing on the surface of semi-molten potassium, but if that's the case it is a very convincing imitation. The presence of lithium metal makes it happen more consistently, though molten lithium does some really strange things to mineral oil.
This video really bring out the beauty in chemistry.
You sir are a scholar and an artist!
Hi! With your videos I can click thumbs-up before watching and I won't be disappointed.
The color depends on the concentration. The color shifts from a blue, to bronze gold color, depending on the concentration of solvated electrons. The reason for the specific color is unknown, but is seen in all examples of proven solvated electron reactions.
The blue vapour around the nak ball in water is not from this world. Fascinating!
Great job! Thanks for making this video.
Wow, I've never seen this experiment before but it looks incredible
Would you consider leaving on a red cloth table lamp in the bedroom and a tubular vintage oval bulb lamp in the office, and seeing which type of bulb burns out first, doing an experiment?
6:40 That gave me a chuckle. Honest man.
That is so alien looking. It could actually be in a movie scene for the next scifi film
The way the alloy stuck to the copper made it look like molten solder.
All in all, really cool stuff!
It's mesmerizing watching a coulombic explosion in slow motion as all it's protective electrons bleed away instead of detonating and the final naked Sodium/Potassium mix reacts all at once with the water.
Electron blue. Beautiful color.
It seems that’s how bodies in the cosmos behave.that’s amazing.being smart is cool.
WoW!! Nice super closeup at the end with the steam.
The beauty of chemistry at work.
yup, thunderfoot's paper. We all knew alkaline metals go boom, but now we know why and much more!
I remember seeing an old Open University demonstration where Sodium metal was dissolved in liquefied Ammonia gas producing the intense dark inky blue of solvated electrons, then a cyclic crown ether was added to clathrate half of the Sodium cations, resulting in an ionic complex obtainable as a golden crystalline solid when the ammonia was evaporated, a sort of sodium salt of itself.
Very cool! I knew about alkali metals displaying in ammonia and releasing free electrons, but not water.
Oh you have just given me the most amazing ideas for analysis on this!!! Fantastic work!!!!!!
I knew, but I got to see more!
Genie, "You have three wishes"
Rando, "I wish to be able to eat sodium and potassium without them exploding"
Genie, "You have three wishes"
I have heard of this effect before with water (I think from one of Phil Mason's videos) and have seen the ammonia version first hand (along with bronze-phase Na/NH3). The slow motion of the NaK drops coalescing was great. I wonder if the beating heart experiment (mercury, iron nail, sulfuric acid and an oxidizer in a watch glass) would look as interesting in slow mo?
Did you notice that Phil is lead author of the paper shown in this video?
Coolest science video I've seen in a while
You have a NaK for uploading great videos.
Never seen the ammonia "reaction" soooo cool!
Wow ... Magnificent... Praised is the best of creators!
I regularly make NaK for my students and they are always impressed by the reactivity. So it seems contradictory to use it as coolant in nuclear reactors, yet it is done, because of it’s thermal conductivity and fluidity at room temperature.
I have heard of it before but never seen such good video work on it
That last 1 in space. Steam n sodium metal. Super heated. It thermal dynamics in a nutshell. Bonkers Kool...seabeck effect.
5:25 Oh crap you created a small Palantir! You're in league with Sauron!
NaKadelic baby! NaK vs. surface tension, neat!
Seeing how the liquid blobs combine, I wonder if it's possible to make a NaK lava lamp. Maybe with a clear inert liquid with a similar density to NaK and sealing it in glass container filled with argon.
Those shots where stunning
Extremely interesting but also a bit spooky
Spectacular slow motion!
A company called Teledyne-Commodore used sodium-NH3 solvated electron back in the 90's and early '00's. I worked for them. You can look up the applications and details. The chemical reduction process was paired with a high pressure cutting jet that used liquid NH3 to cut into objects to obtain chemical materials that were to be reacted with the solvated electron solution.
Oh, a alkali metal paper by Dr. P. Mason? I Wonder who that could be :D
Whoever he is, I bet he has loud feet...
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Hey Feliks! If Na-K alloy is so much more reactive than Na or K on their own, I wonder how reactive what an alloy made of all the alkali metals would be! (Just a random idea occurred to me.) Would be great if you could show experiments with such an alloy, if possible, or just a Rb-Cs alloy. Thank you.
I always assumed the increased reactivity of NaK was due to it being a liquid at room temperature - allowing more material to transport freely to surfaces of reactivity, instead of reacting then remaining in place to hinder further reaction like in a solid. I suspect other eutectic mixtures of alkali metals will do the same.
@@ingolifs Maybe you are correct. If that's the case, Rb-Cs alloy should react even more violently than pure Caesium.
I'm following you now that was FREAKING WICKED AWESOME
Aware yes, able to fully appreciate its beauty, not until now. Very nice 👌
Wow, this is really illuminating about the different reactions that happen to a reacting NaK droplet on water
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thunderfoot also explored these phenomena. though you didn't explain why might me the reasons the NaK alloy seems to turn transparent before exploding.
Fantastic video!
You could even see the blue color formation on contact with water without the inert atmosphere.
Coolest thing Ive seen all year wow
the slo mo footage... just wooooow.....
Those slow-mo shots look like mitosis in reverse
Beautiful! I did not know the hydrogen combustion in alkali metal + water reactions was what caused the explosion so that NaK in water under an inert atmosphere was mind-blowing!
This. Is. Sheer. Art.
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