@@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?
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.
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.
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 UA-cam, 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.
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.
“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….
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
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...
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
6:12 You show the paper by Philip E. Mason, also known as Thunderf00t here on UA-cam. You really should mention his videos where he explains the Coulomb explosion, and link to his alkali metal explosion videos in general.
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")
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.
Mr. ActionLab I think You really need one of those Phantom high-speed cameras. I know they're extremely expensive but still. What a great experiments became possible with it.
thanks so much ! i was obviously asking myself how did you keep your teeth so clean ! XD good video thanks ! also why did you say the first one didn't explode while it acctually did ? or was it not an explosion ?
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.
(UA-cam 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.
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.
"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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
get the slow mo guy on board. This is beautiful
Dry water and liquid nitrogen??? Anyone???
Fr.
Freeze-dried water?
It would just freeze.
@@memejeff dry snow?
@@BenjaminVestergaard Good point.
"I know what you're thinking - what happened to my hair?" ...
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
“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.
🤔😁😁🙄😜
This was a good one, interesting result, especially the first run.
"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
Looks like he used the rest of the dry water to wash his hair 😂
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 UA-cam, 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.
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.
What happens if you freeze dry water
Snow
Dry ice genius
Dry ice
@@Electrical.Perspective no.
@@Electrical.PerspectiveDry ice is CO2, genius
I absolutely love you enthusiasm!
It was a nice experiment thanks fella
The fact that you can come up with so many interesting experiments is amazing ☺️
In a cooking class:
"Teacher, I blew up my water."
Cool video, James, thanks!
“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!
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
A New Hair Style! I Love It.
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)
When Thunderf00t met The Action Lab.
What about magnesium? Would magnesium burn in dry water?
Everytime you think he’s out of questions to ask , he comes back with even deeper questions
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.
Smoothest transition into sponsorship ever, 😂
Wow! Thank you for taking my request🤩
Explosions and toothbrushes was just what I needed at 10:44 pm✨
Yo that slo mo looks like a movie shot fr
"There's inside experiments and outside experiments"... This is a good physicist.
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...
"I've also been prepping my hair with dry water 🙇👹". 😂
Really seems like and ideal collaboration opportunity with the slo mo guys!
BOOM! and Seagull diarrhea is everywhere 😂 Awesome reaction 👍
Him "Water is wet"
I will beat you
2:18 What teachers think when we see girls in school
>Yes, water can be wet. Don't get me started on that.
O I think I want to get you started on that.
hey looks like u made a semi controlled sodium rocket
integzas next project??
The best part of this video is The slow motion explosion of sodium.
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.
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
6:12 You show the paper by Philip E. Mason, also known as Thunderf00t here on UA-cam. 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.
I figured we'd get a constant sizzle till it was gone. Seems more like logarithmic growth.
Is James slowly turning into Nicholas Cage?
I assumed for his pearly white teeth he simply got real close to the beaker and smiled as the reaction happened.
Ambatublow😩 ahh explosion
3:11 that’s exactly what I was wondering 💀
Last time I was this early I ended up with twins
damn ☠☠
HUH??
awesome
Ayo📸
He fine as fuck XD
Given how violent the explosion was. I found it most interesting the exploding material did not strike the glass shield protecting the camera.
3:17
"I know what you all are thinking 'How does he keep his teeth so clean' "
Nah bro, that's just you
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")
This dudes hair looks like he ran a 100 yard dash in a 90 yard gym.
Yes, water can be wet. Don't get me started on that.
Are you a bot?
@@EGRJdoesn't seem like it
Action Lab literally read my mind, i had dry water and sodium metal and was wondering the same!
I love how "dry water" is a thing lol
Your face is dry
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.
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.
4:22 no way the toothbrush has airplane mode 😂😂😂😂😂
Can you have dry water ice?
That dry water splattering when it exploded stimulated something deep inside of me. 😳
That experiment looked pretty violet to me.
"Nothing is happening"
Hold my beer
You should make a video on why water is wet
"i know what you all are thinking, how i keep my teeth so clean"
i underestimated bro's humor
I learned something, and its that Hot Water is water on steroids.
Pavel Jungwirth's group is studying solvatation of electrons in water and ammonia, it is an amazing work
This is not dry water. Dry water is H30, and electricity doesn't go in it
Ahh yes, basic laws of chemistry to tell me how to burn water
"that was surprising, Ive never seen it just burn like that, it didnt even explode"
**Cuts to the floor covered in nut water** 👀👀
Of all the things I was thinking, I definitely wasn't thinking about your teeth LOL. Keep making these videos! I love them!!!
Mr. ActionLab I think You really need one of those Phantom high-speed cameras. I know they're extremely expensive but still. What a great experiments became possible with it.
Very cool, my man.
Sodium hydroxide also dissolves silica as well, forming sodium silicate.
1:34 Yep, definitely an outdoor experiment.
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.
Feels like the first video you showed when saying "dry water" wasn't dry water at all - it was the silica...
I always wondered how you kept your teeth so clean, thank you for answering
thanks so much ! i was obviously asking myself how did you keep your teeth so clean ! XD good video thanks ! also why did you say the first one didn't explode while it acctually did ? or was it not an explosion ?
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?
When I saw dry water my first thought was "is this a April fools episode?"
That’s a nice, short,hot, explosive, and expensive candle
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.
I still feel like water is not wet. But it can make things wet
Quote of the day: "Ok, something happened that time."
The flames in slomo was such a great shot
(UA-cam 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.
That was pretty awesome! Any possibility of a collab with the Slow Mo Guys or Smarter Every Day to watch that reaction on high speed?
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.
"So no explosion."
Wait, James. Whattya think that big "POP!" that made the container jump was?
6:12 - Great to see Thunderf00t in the quoted article. Great video! Thanks!
Generally, dry water is something different .. Maybe try that too