He ordered it from the same place that I ordered it from. I buy around a kilo every other week. I sell sodium, and other groups 1 and 2 metals on eBay under the same name that you see on here. I would never, ever buy sodium from the seller that packages their product in this way. As you see in the video, it's extremely oxidized and a large portion of it is now unusable because of that. I get it from sigma now and never have to worry about oxidation anymore. I pass that purity along to my customers too. If you all want some sodium, check out my eBay shop where you can get up to 100g, sometimes half a kilo, shipped directly to your door for cheap! Best quality, guaranteed!
Oh yeah, also, how long can sodium be safely stored in mineral oil? I bought about an oz from United Nuclear over 8 years ago, and due to safety concerns, I've barely used any of it. But it's oxide layer doesn't really appear to have thickened much. Its still under the same clear mineral oil too. I'd also bought 5g of Potassium at the same time, but I got rid of it a few years ago because I'd read that it can become unstable even in mineral oil and cause problems.
HighlanderNorth1 The sodium should be fine, just be careful with the potassium, as K metal tends to form highly sensitive explosive peroxides. These peroxides can be easily removed by a normal cleaning of the metal.
Who else came here because in there book it was written that sodium can be cut knife easily and you thought that it would be satisfying But now you realize that it's not as you thought
Would it be easier to use a double boiler to warm the whole block to about 100C (under oil) so that sodium metal melts and the hydroxide sinks to the bottom as a solid?
How much did you pay for 2lbs of sodium? I just looked and I see 1 source listed on eBay who sells sodium in 2lb increments, and it's $190. But it says something about being stored in mineral oil. I could be wrong, but the white oxide layer on your ingot looked really thick in some areas, but maybe that's just because the cutting action caused the outer oxide layer to fold around the end, giving a false appearance of being 1/3" thick in spots.
Hmm..thats new. never seen/heard/came across a vacuum packed giant sodium chunk. I bought mine (250g) from a science supply store. It came in ice cube sized chunks stored in mineral oil in a glass bottle, which is in turn stored inside a tin can.Very convenient.
Dude, I ordered from this same seller and got the same shitty sodium with an extreme amount of oxidation on it and it was shipped only in that bag and a box. That's it. Imagine if it had gotten punctured and got wet. It could have killed someone! This seller needs to have wanton endangerment charges and mail fraud for not shipping these correctly and for putting many, many people at risk. Imagine if it had gotten punctured, then got wet, and was on a plane!!!! This could have turned into an international incident and would have been world wide news! They need to be held responsible for their actions and lack of safety protocols!
This man is literally struggling with the sodium and knife and our books can easily write that "sodium and potassium are the two metals that can be cut with knife" This is so terrifically ironic...
What a nice chunk of Na you have.. Wher did you bay thet, and how mutch fore 2 pounds? Just woundring: what would happen if you have a saturated solution of NaOH in water and then drop a pic of Na in it? Will the NaOH crystallized out on ground of the beaker? Or will the Na not react whit water and just being cool to be in water? Or will it been more reactiv?? Pleas try
2 pounds of sodium can be bought off eBay for $200 USD. If the water was saturated, the metal will still react, but the NaOH formed will just stay attached to the metal instead of dissolve, and it will actually protect the metal underneath.
i plan on building my own liquid salt reactor that allows me to produce potassium and sodium metal directly using electricity. should be fun, heated with nichrome wire and filled with nitrogen gas to prevent oxidation.
If you add sodium to a saturated solution of sodium hydroxide will it cause some sodium hydroxide to precipitate out? Or will it be prevented from reacting?
When Americans talk about Sodium they're always telling us to pack it under mineral oil... but what IS mineral oil... is there a more scientific or European name for it?
Oh thanks... I suppose the nearest we can get to a scientific name is good old fashioned "pariffinum liquidum"... Thanks... all is clear now. It is a bit of a pain that we call petroleum products by different names each side of "the pond".
Is there a special reason why you chose to cut it on a glass plate? Kind of seems like a recipe for disaster. Or at least another major potential point of failure.
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I dont know why but cutting soft metal is so satisfying
IKR it sort of feels like hard jelly
Yes 😂
Exactly
its so satisfying to see it cut, then its shiny inside ! :D
YESS@@isabel5066
I've always wanted to cut off sodium like a big metallic salami.
Like cat salami lmao
Like a cat salami lmao
Fhie haha I thought that too, or a sodium burrito 🌯
needs better title
"man has difficult time cutting weird meatloaf?"
My book: sodium metal can be cut easily
This man:*struggling*
cause the metal is so thick
Me too
@@Og_Chat lol
Yes i was also looking for that only how sodium is soft. Because it was in my book
@PHYDO GAMING
That’s cuz sodium is the easiest one to cut when compared to others.
oil and a sharp knife. a wonderful combination.
I would have loved to see that whole ingot thrown into water.
laimonas lb It would burn for a long time.
It would tear his whole lab apart and send burning sodium everywhere
Yep. The bigger the piece. The faster and bigger the boom
It would spray sodium hydroxide water everywhere not a good idea
There is a guy that threw a pound into a river. Watch the video.
th-cam.com/video/5UsRiPOFLjk/w-d-xo.html
That oxidation washes right off mate
+Green Pretzel Thats the kind of stuff to go on 1000 ways to die
aha
stop.. stop.. stop it..
Some soapy water and its clean.
Actually, acid washes work better, especially with hot piranha solution!
Mmmm... pickled Sodium.
Damn, I just said that.
4:00 I hear this every morning
You should try Colace
You deserve top comment.
Yukk
Haha xd
What do you mean
Sodium Metal & Gallium have to be two of my favorites!, I can think of endless ways to have fun with those!.
I have never seen so much sodium in one place. How did you acquire such a large sample?
He spewed it out by magic
@@createvideo561 no, he excreted it in the potty.
no, no no, no... he forced it through his urethra 👈
He ordered it from the same place that I ordered it from. I buy around a kilo every other week. I sell sodium, and other groups 1 and 2 metals on eBay under the same name that you see on here. I would never, ever buy sodium from the seller that packages their product in this way. As you see in the video, it's extremely oxidized and a large portion of it is now unusable because of that. I get it from sigma now and never have to worry about oxidation anymore. I pass that purity along to my customers too. If you all want some sodium, check out my eBay shop where you can get up to 100g, sometimes half a kilo, shipped directly to your door for cheap! Best quality, guaranteed!
Nooooo no no, he passed it through his wee wee hole like a giant kidney stone.
Silvery White- Sodium Metal I call it "Metal butter"
Top quality videos! Thanks, Doug! :)
The ingot looks like a long forgotten chunk of Brie from some christmas party years ago. Lol.
If you close your eyes at 4:00--6:00, it sounds like someone taking a long shit
TheTricky411 hahahahahaa
this still isn't as salty as the internet
R Slash Teschnisch gesehen wahr
Lmao, Imagine telling the airport security it's sodium
Doug that ham is out of date
Holy cow, where do you even buy a kilo of sodium?
...the internet
he bought it from blockbuster
gamestop
did he ever answer a question?
Just seperate it from salt
request for 10hrs long version
Oh yeah, also, how long can sodium be safely stored in mineral oil? I bought about an oz from United Nuclear over 8 years ago, and due to safety concerns, I've barely used any of it. But it's oxide layer doesn't really appear to have thickened much. Its still under the same clear mineral oil too. I'd also bought 5g of Potassium at the same time, but I got rid of it a few years ago because I'd read that it can become unstable even in mineral oil and cause problems.
HighlanderNorth1 The sodium should be fine, just be careful with the potassium, as K metal tends to form highly sensitive explosive peroxides. These peroxides can be easily removed by a normal cleaning of the metal.
HighlanderNorth1 The peroxides have been known to detonate when attempting to slice the potassium metal.
I'd chunk a piece of Na like that into water just for fun
Dude that's some gnarly cheese you got there
"unless you're a fan of massive chemical burns to the hands"
Who else came here because in there book it was written that sodium can be cut knife easily
and you thought that it would be satisfying
But now you realize that it's not as you thought
Watch Nile red's video on cleaning sodium metal
Quite a workout when cutting that sodium.
Would it be easier to use a double boiler to warm the whole block to about 100C (under oil) so that sodium metal melts and the hydroxide sinks to the bottom as a solid?
The forbidden brie cheese
How much did you pay for 2lbs of sodium? I just looked and I see 1 source listed on eBay who sells sodium in 2lb increments, and it's $190. But it says something about being stored in mineral oil. I could be wrong, but the white oxide layer on your ingot looked really thick in some areas, but maybe that's just because the cutting action caused the outer oxide layer to fold around the end, giving a false appearance of being 1/3" thick in spots.
Sodium: hates taking a bath
Hmm..thats new. never seen/heard/came across a vacuum packed giant sodium chunk. I bought mine (250g) from a science supply store. It came in ice cube sized chunks stored in mineral oil in a glass bottle, which is in turn stored inside a tin can.Very convenient.
That's the difference between professionally stored vs a gift from a stranger
Imagine if you accidentally wash the cutting board after you cut some sodium.
I miss you dud!where ar u?
I want to buy a kilo of sodium metal and go on that Nat Geo show to catch a smuggler
Could have put some pH indicator in the water... That would have at least made it a _little_ bit exciting.
Hello Doug
The Sodium is covered with large chunks of sodium hydroxide (1/3 th) and you should take a hammer to crack it of before cutting.
Dude, I ordered from this same seller and got the same shitty sodium with an extreme amount of oxidation on it and it was shipped only in that bag and a box. That's it. Imagine if it had gotten punctured and got wet. It could have killed someone! This seller needs to have wanton endangerment charges and mail fraud for not shipping these correctly and for putting many, many people at risk. Imagine if it had gotten punctured, then got wet, and was on a plane!!!! This could have turned into an international incident and would have been world wide news! They need to be held responsible for their actions and lack of safety protocols!
Cutting sodium is so... _satisfying_
This man is literally struggling with the sodium and knife and our books can easily write that "sodium and potassium are the two metals that can be cut with knife"
This is so terrifically ironic...
Looks like Turkish delight :) The big knife for cutting cheese would be handy.
Remember boys and girls also wear sleeves, notice how his wrist kept touching the sodium, I bet his wrist got some burns on it.
sodium in jar looks like MEAT IN WATER
It’s like if butter became explosive
That's a REALLY thick layer of Oxide/Hydroxide!
Why not simply melting it down once you have such huge amounts of mineral oil available?
What a nice chunk of Na you have.. Wher did you bay thet, and how mutch fore 2 pounds?
Just woundring: what would happen if you have a saturated solution of NaOH in water and then drop a pic of Na in it? Will the NaOH crystallized out on ground of the beaker? Or will the Na not react whit water and just being cool to be in water? Or will it been more reactiv?? Pleas try
2 pounds of sodium can be bought off eBay for $200 USD. If the water was saturated, the metal will still react, but the NaOH formed will just stay attached to the metal instead of dissolve, and it will actually protect the metal underneath.
i plan on building my own liquid salt reactor that allows me to produce potassium and sodium metal directly using electricity. should be fun, heated with nichrome wire and filled with nitrogen gas to prevent oxidation.
So did you do it? I'm curious.
What oil that use.. And how about with no oil added to sodium metal
Looks exactly like a log of Brie.
Washing sodium metal with water" GONE WRONG*+#.}|
Felt hard 😂😂
I would like to see how to make sodium hydride from sodium and hydrogen.
Me in ochem lab slicing sodium thinking about how much I want to eat it
If you add sodium to a saturated solution of sodium hydroxide will it cause some sodium hydroxide to precipitate out? Or will it be prevented from reacting?
It pops because of the presence of hydrogen produced, right?
Where did you get the sodium?
Wei Zhao turns out ur talking to a 70 yr old or a 10 yr old lol
BiG ᗷOSS Agar.i
Nice tutorial
nice channel man realy educational :D
It's like making a sodium metal burger patty!
why do not you build a hood filled with argon then you can clean the Na inside and keep it clean and shiny and put them into oil.
Today's youtuber would do 5kg Sodium Reaction in water.
What if somebody changed kerosene into water before he arrives
so many qustions asking where to buy this Na metal??
any answers??
I didn't see bigger chunk of sodium
where did you buy it
Question. My science teacher said/ showed that sodium can be easily cut with a butter knife but you are having quite some trouble why is this
It's frozen I guess.
It's because he's cutting a very large chunk, almost at the end of the video he cut a piece with a spatula
where you buy it? Any suplier in Europe? I need Na and K potasium to make NaK
organicchemistrypoland
0:37 forbidden goat cheese
It is pretty easy to "Na"ck those pieces off :) jajajaja
Does anybody dry their mineral oil?
Why did the metal go to the side of the beaker(at least I think its called that)
Why?
Surface tension, the water at the sides is higher then the water in the middle
it shouldn't have been that hard to cut right?
it slices easily
Can you make a sodium-mercury amalgam?
+TheChemistryShack Yes, that's possible.
DutchPhlogiston No I meant could he make one for a video
Nilered made a video on that
It is not easily cut with a knife =Sodium metal
Does it legal?
How much money did it cost you for your entire lab approximately?
A lot
any bands
Sodium cuting asmr
When Americans talk about Sodium they're always telling us to pack it under mineral oil... but what IS mineral oil... is there a more scientific or European name for it?
Oil that has good stuff
It's a very cheap oil produced as a byproduct of distilling 'petrol'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil
Oh thanks... I suppose the nearest we can get to a scientific name is good old fashioned "pariffinum liquidum"... Thanks... all is clear now.
It is a bit of a pain that we call petroleum products by different names each side of "the pond".
edgeeffect Parafin oil for us Europeans.
@@edgeeffect it's a mixture of a bunch of long carbon chains so there's not really a "scientific" name for it
I want some where can I buy
How much $$$?
Lots
If you can make a video how to can make Sodium peroxide Na2O2 from Na metal will be so nice :) thank you
I can’t be the only one that wanna bite it
Are the blue crystals in the intro some salt of nickel?
JJ Watt i always thought it was copper sulfate
Is it shiny?? Or its a cover on it
How does one make that huge chunk of sodium?
with a bunch of smaller chunks of sodium, or off a bigger chunk?
Where did you buy this "brick" of sodium?
where did you buy the sodium metal?please
The forbidden cheese
Where did you bought sodium metal?
wish someone would send me a chunk of sodium.
909 g of sodium. Nice!
Came here because of Doug's Lab
There's just something about this that's so wrong. You're not supposed to be able to cut through metal with a knife😣🤔
Wait a second. Doesn’t sodium catch fire when kept in the presence of oxygen???
No. Only in Hydrogen Oxide.
put the entire 2lbs in water...
that would be a great experiment
Vedraj r.m "Experiment" yea :D
@@GermanAnimationen More like "Na"sty explosion
I want to taste the danger cheese
Is there a special reason why you chose to cut it on a glass plate? Kind of seems like a recipe for disaster. Or at least another major potential point of failure.
is it heavy or denc
Where did you get so much sodium metal Doug's Lab ?
I ordered 28 grams of Sodium... It arrived today.
+Aidan Gieg he's throwing a sodium party.
Can you eat sodium ?
*Throws Water Balloon