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| What's Going When Sodium Explodes in Water |
Every chemistry student considers the explosion as a good
fun. Very recently, the scientists have
captured that What is going When Sodium Explodes in Water (H2O) using the high
quality and advanced cameras and got a very beautiful and astonished results.
When the Water and the sodium meets then the Sodium Controts into the Sea
Urchin like Shape and then the reaction starts easily.
As the Alkali Metals are very reactive, and Sodium is Alkali
metal and is so reactive and Sodium is in Solid state at Normal room
temperature and the Sodium is very common and popular in NaCl or table salt.
And Sodium is stable here because Sodium makes bond with the Cl or Chloride.
The Alkali Metals are having a very interesting feature that when these alkali
metals comes in contact with water then these elements Erupt Furiously. And
start interacting with the Water to form Hydrogen Gas and also other products.
This reaction also Generates or produce the heats, where this heat melts the
Sodium And it start Ignites Because of the reason that the Hydrogen gas is
Flammable.
The Scientists are using the liquid mixture of Sodium with
another alkali metal like Potassium and the Scientists can Drip it slowly in
the water in the drops of uniform Shape and the uniform Size. During this
reaction, The Scientists set up the High advanced cameras to capture that Whats
going during reaction at Thousands of the Frames per Second. These High
advanced Cameras captured the Scene which we have never ever seen. And the New Scientists of today has reported
that On the Nature Chemistry, the Spikes are seen, and they have deduced that,
just because of the reason that Whenever the electrons Flee the Metal For the
Water. Then the Intense +ve (Positive) Charged is build there and then the
Mutual Repulsion of these +ve Charges Rips apart of the Metal and after this,
it Blasts Outward in a very small Needles. And this blasts will Increase the
Area (Surface area) of the Sodium (Na) in contacting with the water and
producing the strange reaction and the scientists have confirmed the effects of
this reaction.
The Most astonishing thing us that we have never seen this
effect before. The explanation of this reaction will be very useful for the
prevention of explosions in Industrial Applications and uses that is using the
Alkali Metals in Certain Nuclear Reactors and it is very interesting with
playing such explosion.
