Let’s not forget that this man literally has a PhD in chemical engineering. Not only is he incredibly smart but pretty damn entertaining. Much respect to you.
When my Dad was in middle school, one of his friends stole a chunk of sodium from his science teacher. While being entertained with it exploding over and over out of a mixing bowl full of water, one of his friends had it explode little fragments of sodium all over his arms. He started running around yelling "it's burning, it's burning". His mom heard the commotion and came outside and instinctively grabbed the hose and started to spray him down. You can imagine how much that helped. One of the funniest stories my Dad ever told me. He said it was like a bunch of tiny little fireworks going off on his arms
JEes Louis! I've actually had something like that happen to me. I was doing a science project in the backyard (can't remember what, but it involved Magnesium) when the magnesium somehow caught fire. I yelled "fire! FIRE!!!" and my mom came outside and grabbed the hose and doused the table. We all know what happens when you pour water on a sodium fire. P.S. When the fire flared up, SHE KEPT SPRAYING THE DANG THING. Then she finally put two and two together, big, white flame, fire grows bigger when we put water on it, and went inside to grab the extinguisher.
@@rizilm2229 the same happened in my chemistry teacher, he was teaching a class of crooks. They misbehaved in lab. And playing with sodium and sodium didn't lose a chance
Most incredible part of this is a mother being able to instinctually react fast enough to do the rational (as without in depth knowledge, pouring water in it is rational) thing of pouring water on it immediately. Most mothers I knew growing up would have flailed around in panic doing nothing.
0:25 Mercury is also not dangerous to touch, and unlike gallium, it doesn’t leave any residue in your skin. The biggest problem with it is the vapors, which when inhaled get converted to organic mercury compounds, which are toxic.
In a Cody's Lab video, Cody said mercury is not dangerous to touch *if there are no breaks in your skin*. He works with mercury often, and periodically has a medical test done to check for mercury.
@@jamesfunk7614 "Mercury is not dangerous to touch if there are no breaks in your skin" is not the same as "Mercury is dangerous to touch if there are breaks in your skin". Like sure, it's probably a bad idea to submerge an open wound in mercury, but you're not gonna die from holding a few drops of mercury in your palm.
@@platygetzkillz627 , what do you mean? There are no different "types" of mercury. Only different compounds that it can create or different amalgams. There is only 1 type of mercury. The elemental type, which is what is being discussed here. You are talking about mercury compounds.
@@platygetzkillz627 You're thinking of organic Mercury, and they're a group of compounds containing mercury, not just mercury itself. Dimethyl Mercury is a particularly bad one
You could heat the liquid gallium as the sodium is in it. Gallium has a low vapor pressure. The sodium would then melt in the gallium and permit better mixing. This could even be performed under a high-boiling point mineral oil. The sodium and gallium liquid metals may even stratify
This one was a lot of fun to watch. It reminded me of my childhood days with the chemistry set I got for Christmas! I had the most fun with the experiments that included the phrase, "UH OH!!!!".
i was going to make a smartass joke about finding elemental sodium in childrens' chemistry sets, but then i remembered the U-238 chemistry sets that they sold back in the 50s.
I think you can dissolve the sodium in liquid ammonia and then react that with gallium. From my understanding, gallium can forma zintl compounds with sodium.
I once tried to make NaK, sodium and potassium alloy. Interesting thing about NaK is it is a liquid metal. Because the pieces had an oxide layer they didn’t combine and so I had to dispose of sodium and potassium. Fortunately a small quantity.
Very cool experiment. Although I got an M.Sc. in chemistry I have only heard about gallium's properties... but have neverexperienced them. Awesome video!
08:00 - Probably some gallium splashed onto the metal frame of the door. Gallium is very cool, but I would NOT let it get close to any structural metal or any mechanical, electrical or electronic thing, for it's the T-1000 on them. Great vid! 👌👍
@@750kv8 No need for a citation really, it just takes a little bit more thought of what it means for something to be hard. when something bends it is softer so the more brittle something becomes the more hard it is
@@TheGrayKPlays Some other uploader, maybe Backyard Scientist but idk, compared breaking attacked aluminium to breaking chocolate bars. Is a chocolate bar harder that intact aluminium? If attacked aluminium is harder than the intact one, shouldn't it break more like glass for example? Yes, citation IS needed, all the time, for something not known to anyone, or not very obvious. Also, don't mix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittleness. It's REALLY NOT the same thing.
So before it happens I'm gonna call it The gallium environment allows a lot more surface contact between the sodium and air which will slowly but surely heat it up, if it gets hot enough and spontaneously combusts then a small explosion will ensue, but i can't be sure if it'll ever get to the flash temperature since the concentration of sodiu, specific heat capacity and heat conductivity of gallium Edit: nvm, apparenty it doesn't like to be a liquid alloy with gallium
In 9th grade, my earth science class teacher did that demonstration (sodium in water). He covered the overhead fluorescent lights with plastic sheeting and same. The sheeting caught on fire.
There was a kid at school that made a mold for a US quarter, and poured molten potasium into the mold....the potassium quarter came out PERFECT. He gave it a very light coating of oil and put it into an altoids tin. Then right before the end of one class period, he took it out, wiped off the oil and tossed it into the hallway! Well of course someone picked it up....we just heard a YAAAARRRGGG!!!!! scream from the busy hallway
If you cooled a piece of sodium with liquid nitrogen, then dropped it in water, which would happen first: ice forming around the sodium, keeping it safe? Or the sodium/water reaction heating it up?
Proper way to make contact is to melt Na in vacuum with GaIn. The other way is to pour on some kerosene and add few drops of alcohol until the white layer is removed.
You should have melted the sodium metal into the gallium with heat as you would in adding tin to your gallium / indium alloy forming gallinstan which is more accurate of a recipe for modern thermometer fluid. Add 0.2% bismuth and it's identical to the formula most use.
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I want to dive in a pool of Gallium...who wants to join?
The Action Lab ‘Na’
I'm with it!!!! Let me know when I can come....
Seriously?? In a spacesuit ??user if
Sodium Hydride
@@n0t_UN_Owen hello some guy
Let’s not forget that this man literally has a PhD in chemical engineering. Not only is he incredibly smart but pretty damn entertaining. Much respect to you.
Rlly?
"Oh, the sodium did nothing" :3
Blnq yep read his channel bio
@@epicdarr You're right!
HOw could he "figuratively" instead of literally have a PhD?
When my Dad was in middle school, one of his friends stole a chunk of sodium from his science teacher. While being entertained with it exploding over and over out of a mixing bowl full of water, one of his friends had it explode little fragments of sodium all over his arms. He started running around yelling "it's burning, it's burning". His mom heard the commotion and came outside and instinctively grabbed the hose and started to spray him down. You can imagine how much that helped. One of the funniest stories my Dad ever told me. He said it was like a bunch of tiny little fireworks going off on his arms
Most underrated comment I have ever seen.
JEes Louis! I've actually had something like that happen to me. I was doing a science project in the backyard (can't remember what, but it involved Magnesium) when the magnesium somehow caught fire. I yelled "fire! FIRE!!!" and my mom came outside and grabbed the hose and doused the table. We all know what happens when you pour water on a sodium fire.
P.S. When the fire flared up, SHE KEPT SPRAYING THE DANG THING. Then she finally put two and two together, big, white flame, fire grows bigger when we put water on it, and went inside to grab the extinguisher.
@@rizilm2229 the same happened in my chemistry teacher, he was teaching a class of crooks.
They misbehaved in lab. And playing with sodium and sodium didn't lose a chance
Ouch
Most incredible part of this is a mother being able to instinctually react fast enough to do the rational (as without in depth knowledge, pouring water in it is rational) thing of pouring water on it immediately.
Most mothers I knew growing up would have flailed around in panic doing nothing.
0:25 Mercury is also not dangerous to touch, and unlike gallium, it doesn’t leave any residue in your skin. The biggest problem with it is the vapors, which when inhaled get converted to organic mercury compounds, which are toxic.
In a Cody's Lab video, Cody said mercury is not dangerous to touch *if there are no breaks in your skin*. He works with mercury often, and periodically has a medical test done to check for mercury.
@@jamesfunk7614 "Mercury is not dangerous to touch if there are no breaks in your skin" is not the same as "Mercury is dangerous to touch if there are breaks in your skin". Like sure, it's probably a bad idea to submerge an open wound in mercury, but you're not gonna die from holding a few drops of mercury in your palm.
Depends on the type. I believe one type is extremely toxic, while the others are only dangerous if you consume them or have a cut.
@@platygetzkillz627 , what do you mean? There are no different "types" of mercury. Only different compounds that it can create or different amalgams. There is only 1 type of mercury. The elemental type, which is what is being discussed here. You are talking about mercury compounds.
@@platygetzkillz627 You're thinking of organic Mercury, and they're a group of compounds containing mercury, not just mercury itself. Dimethyl Mercury is a particularly bad one
I like when you start your video’s with “okay”, instead of “hey everyone”.
I'll make a note of that
"okay today..."
I don't think so ....yes. that!
l say "ok" on my videos all the time to start with , he inherited it from me :)
@@MammaOVlogs I like the family photo,you have a genius boy.
"Gallium can form cool alloys" - Action Lab 2019
"And it starts to melt" - Action Lab 2019
Ew comment quoting
@@plazmatter well what are you going to do when you have nothing to do?
@@plazmatter "Ew comment quoting" -@PlazMatter YT, 2020
@@fgvcosmic6752 WRONG YEAR
I've learned one thing from this channel
don't touch sodium to water.
You could heat the liquid gallium as the sodium is in it. Gallium has a low vapor pressure. The sodium would then melt in the gallium and permit better mixing. This could even be performed under a high-boiling point mineral oil. The sodium and gallium liquid metals may even stratify
This one was a lot of fun to watch. It reminded me of my childhood days with the chemistry set I got for Christmas! I had the most fun with the experiments that included the phrase, "UH OH!!!!".
Me when I accidentally flipped the wrong switch at Chernobyl: "UH OH!!!!"
i was going to make a smartass joke about finding elemental sodium in childrens' chemistry sets, but then i remembered the U-238 chemistry sets that they sold back in the 50s.
boom
What if gallium loves indium so much, that when they kiss, gallium blushes so much that he melts.
Aww
Try writing romance novels
Nice interpretation.👍
@@rizilm2229 god at least it wouldn't be chemical element fanfics
if you draw r34 i will kill myself
*Looks like he's playing with sodium again.*
all you heard was "uh oh" and blowing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 this channel is hilarious
IKR!!!! Love this channel.😂👍
*Instructions unclear, ended up turning my finger into gallium alloy.*
@-Me 2019 😂
@RUDEFOOT 113 Dont see how. Unless you are using that as lube
I wish science and chemistry at school was this good. I learn so much watching your channel !!
amazing! love it and love that a lot of my viewers use your videos in their classrooms!
I think you can dissolve the sodium in liquid ammonia and then react that with gallium. From my understanding, gallium can forma zintl compounds with sodium.
Gallium is like: "get out of here I have a low sodium diet!"
I once tried to make NaK, sodium and potassium alloy. Interesting thing about NaK is it is a liquid metal. Because the pieces had an oxide layer they didn’t combine and so I had to dispose of sodium and potassium. Fortunately a small quantity.
isn't NaK that one alloy that can catch fire in air?
@@freshstat1csnow yes, I was combining it under parrafin. Probably the oxide layers prevented the successful combination.
@@darylcheshire1618why didn't you just clean the 2 metals like you're supposed to?
@@Angrychemist666 You are correct, I did it wrong.
Your wife has got to be about ready to kill you😂😂😂
“Honey?!... I blew up the garage again!”
Very cool experiment. Although I got an M.Sc. in chemistry I have only heard about gallium's properties... but have neverexperienced them. Awesome video!
Is that the Unus Annus theme song at 2:11 ?? I've just remembered it all...
I thought the beaker would shatter for sure. What a mess! I hope none of that gallium got in his aluminum equipment, like a camera case.
I feel like this dude is just as amazed at the results as I am. Keep up the good work bro.
Bro... you just splashed gallium on your aluminum garage door with that explosion.
Oh jeez I just realized that xD Welp guess no more bouncing baseballs on the garage door xD
Don't worry the aluminium has a oxidation layer preventing it from dissolving.but you might still have your car stolen one day.
He splashed something else on my face..
So i guess its one way to make a bomb?
@@clementpoon120 pretty shitty bomb
My 7 year old son loves it when I get the Gallium out, he calls it Terminator Metal
1:45 "You can actually break it with your own hands"
2:53 *Brings a wrench to break the aluminum*
Channel lock pliers*
Love your videos dude. Keep up the good work. Much love from the UK 🤜
1:50
I get *[NAME]* vibes by this music.
yeah it reminds me of *[REDACTED]*
Same, I remember [?NAME?], really brings back memories from a time long passed.
Memento Mori.
Somewhere in the galaxy an alien is sitting at a bar having gallium on the sodium rocks🤣
Parents: So who's your new science teacher?
Me: The Action Lab.
Stfu and stop making lame jokes
You're experiments are incredible I just loved it
The other group in our class: we have the smartest in our class
My group: we have the action lab
Had fun watching this my son. Was telling him how dangerous sodium metal and water was. We had bets on whether the beaker would break.
This is why I use Gallium drill bits on all my aluminum machined parts.
08:00 - Probably some gallium splashed onto the metal frame of the door. Gallium is very cool, but I would NOT let it get close to any structural metal or any mechanical, electrical or electronic thing, for it's the T-1000 on them.
Great vid! 👌👍
Bro when I heard the Unus Annus song
8:31 look at the good side. you made a heart with exploding sodium
I want to see liquid metal reach react to magnets please
None of these have significant ferro or para magnetic properties
So nothing will happen
Both gallium and mercury are diamagnetic which means they are repelled by a magnetic field
Oh that was fun, I really enjoy your reactions and that your cool with things happening, cant wait for more
2:34
Galuminum has been made.
3:47 Fun fact: technically it is less hard before being exposed to gallium. It becomes extremely hard after the gallium saturates it.
Huh, interesting! Citation needed.
@@750kv8 No need for a citation really, it just takes a little bit more thought of what it means for something to be hard. when something bends it is softer so the more brittle something becomes the more hard it is
@@TheGrayKPlays Some other uploader, maybe Backyard Scientist but idk, compared breaking attacked aluminium to breaking chocolate bars. Is a chocolate bar harder that intact aluminium? If attacked aluminium is harder than the intact one, shouldn't it break more like glass for example?
Yes, citation IS needed, all the time, for something not known to anyone, or not very obvious. Also, don't mix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittleness. It's REALLY NOT the same thing.
@@750kv8 Okay. maybe you should read your links though.
@@TheGrayKPlays - Yes, I did. It's your move.
Straw be like I was jus trying to feed u....
So before it happens I'm gonna call it
The gallium environment allows a lot more surface contact between the sodium and air which will slowly but surely heat it up, if it gets hot enough and spontaneously combusts then a small explosion will ensue, but i can't be sure if it'll ever get to the flash temperature since the concentration of sodiu, specific heat capacity and heat conductivity of gallium
Edit: nvm, apparenty it doesn't like to be a liquid alloy with gallium
5:41 I was thinking a marshmallow.
You should freeze dry gallium and mercury
i am surprised that the beaker survived that explosion:D i expected it sending shrapnels all over the room .. tough one! :P
Put sodium in liquid nitrogen. Cool it. Then put it in water. Can you try it please ? They will react spontaneously or not ?
Can you make sodium brittle ?
Can you decrease the reactivity of sodium towards water ?
Can you make it denser using the property "metals contract on cooling" ?
Thank you for all the cool and interesting videos!
01:57 and I am dead!
1:06 looks like he is soldering with his bare hands 😅
The same alloy they use in thermometers instead of the mercury itself.
Me: 😰my whole life was a lie.🤦♂️
Not really, mercury thermometers were in use until quite recently.
You're still more responsible than me when I made nitroglycerine and tnt with stolen nitric acid when I was 14 for shits and giggles.
I love your new background music!
5:32 somewhere in a distant galaxy this is the main thirst quencher.
Galistan is a eutectic alloy of gallium, indium and tin, used as a replacement for mercury in thermometers and electric switches.
I cant figure out that why he is not getting views
Btw love your work dude💙
If you put gallium or other metal with low melting point in a vacuum chamber with wood, will it absorb into it?
I love watching your videos great job 😎👍
0:41
Who heard India ??🇮🇳❤❤
What you get form this is that Gallium is cool
In 9th grade, my earth science class teacher did that demonstration (sodium in water). He covered the overhead fluorescent lights with plastic sheeting and same. The sheeting caught on fire.
There was a kid at school that made a mold for a US quarter, and poured molten potasium into the mold....the potassium quarter came out PERFECT. He gave it a very light coating of oil and put it into an altoids tin. Then right before the end of one class period, he took it out, wiped off the oil and tossed it into the hallway! Well of course someone picked it up....we just heard a YAAAARRRGGG!!!!! scream from the busy hallway
That's a big-ass piece of sodium! Nice demo!
7:45
Awesome vids man....love your videos....filled with interesting science😍
The misic.. my unus annus flashbacks.
Wow! That Gallium / Indium alloy result just by pushing them together was jaw-dropping! :-) I cringed when you added the water to the sodium.
I wonder if you can control the gallium crystal formation by changing the cooling rate
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
😡 When a video have two consecutive unskipable ads
I wanted to see the sodimized gallium alone reacting with water.
With solid sodium, it's just a sodium explosion.
He is the only youtuber that can make nuclear weapons more deadly with his experiments
OMG Science is my Favorite Subject.!!! 😃😃
@Aryan Saha I,ve already graduated from high school 😃😃
Aren't metals not supposed to react with metals?
8:27 this shows the love of sodium gallium and water 😂😂
All I can hear is the unus annus music
Excellent scientific show 👍
Well. It at least melted the sheet off in a heart shape. 😂
So awesome!!
Just it of curiosity 0:59 which is indium and which is gallium
If you cooled a piece of sodium with liquid nitrogen, then dropped it in water, which would happen first: ice forming around the sodium, keeping it safe? Or the sodium/water reaction heating it up?
This guy's home insurance adjuster must LIVE for this.
Explosion was awesome🔥🔥🔥
When you did your final "experiment" I thought, "You idiot!" I was correct.
Wife's friend: What was this noise?
Wife: Don't worry it's just my husband blowing up the garage again.
Proper way to make contact is to melt Na in vacuum with GaIn.
The other way is to pour on some kerosene and add few drops of alcohol until the white layer is removed.
05:11
There you go, that's what you came for, and yes it took him that long to get to it
One of the reasons I like this guy so much is because he posts so frequently.
*Vsauce subscribers have left the chat*
Gallium and Indium, melts in your hand, not your mouth. 😂
8:04 new way to make fireworks
Fun with exotic metals! Good times were had by all.
yep , that's why you don't play with molten sodium lol! Whoa, gotta buy a new light shade
You should have melted the sodium metal into the gallium with heat as you would in adding tin to your gallium / indium alloy forming gallinstan which is more accurate of a recipe for modern thermometer fluid. Add 0.2% bismuth and it's identical to the formula most use.
Fun! Need closeup on pipe when you break it.
3:10 - i've heard it described as feeling like tempered chocolate when the aluminum is completely saturated.
That beaker took it like a champ
5:55 forbidden iced tea
Put sodium metal in mercury
The gallium destroying the aluminum was cool but I got distracted hearing unus annus music XD
4:20 the forbidden cheese
1:22 The thermometers that look like they're mercury but they're not -- so casual -- "Mind blown" -- kkkk whaat?