Making table salt using sodium metal and chlorine gas

Ғылым және технология

Chlorine and sodium are individually very reactive, but together they form regular old table salt.
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  • @snosibsnob3930
    @snosibsnob39304 жыл бұрын

    I was running out of salt, and needed some for eggs. Thanks!

  • @dubbleyou248

    @dubbleyou248

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @shaynaemery2493

    @shaynaemery2493

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @fadhlihamid1446

    @fadhlihamid1446

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @meinjunge2605

    @meinjunge2605

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fadhlihamid1446 Lol

  • @spiderman9676

    @spiderman9676

    3 жыл бұрын

    Op

  • @frederickfugglesworth9877
    @frederickfugglesworth98777 жыл бұрын

    Sodium just looks so satisfying to cut. I don't know why.

  • @TheDeadMeme27

    @TheDeadMeme27

    4 жыл бұрын

    it feels illegal to cut a metal with a knife lol

  • @mnfen9792

    @mnfen9792

    4 жыл бұрын

    Honesty, it is super satisfying 😂 If you ever have a chance, you could try it

  • @conlangknow8787

    @conlangknow8787

    4 жыл бұрын

    Satisfing to chew

  • @ATLTraveler

    @ATLTraveler

    4 жыл бұрын

    You should feel what it's like to cut the cheese for me

  • @NuisanceMan

    @NuisanceMan

    4 жыл бұрын

    With that white rind, it looks like cheese.

  • @GuyFromJupiter
    @GuyFromJupiter3 жыл бұрын

    I've always loved that two extremely dangerous elements could be so harmless when mixed together.

  • @mel816

    @mel816

    2 жыл бұрын

    On the other hand, you can also have two harmless elements (carbon and oxygen) combine to form something dangerous/deadly (carbon monoxide)😮

  • @aqeel6842

    @aqeel6842

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mel816 Pure oxygen is dangerous, I still see your point though

  • @tradersendeavors

    @tradersendeavors

    2 жыл бұрын

    no, enough salt and you will hurt your health

  • @mintakamothkind

    @mintakamothkind

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nitrogen, which makes up most of the air we breathe, and carbon, which is also quite harmless and inert, combine to form cyanide

  • @masacatior

    @masacatior

    2 жыл бұрын

    And probably the only danger would be on Na2O and NaOH contamination.

  • @1cheeseisawesome
    @1cheeseisawesome8 жыл бұрын

    hmm, this seems like a lot of work. I just go to my friend's house and play a couple games of Smash Bros. and I get enough salt to last me a couple of months.

  • @user-df2ij2np4s

    @user-df2ij2np4s

    8 жыл бұрын

    hahahaha

  • @Robbievigil

    @Robbievigil

    8 жыл бұрын

    bruh, lol.

  • @K1N5L4Y3R

    @K1N5L4Y3R

    7 жыл бұрын

    You should try league of legends, the salt will last a few years and you will make a profit selling it too.

  • @elon6131

    @elon6131

    7 жыл бұрын

    K1N5L4Y3R xD

  • @sheogorath979

    @sheogorath979

    6 жыл бұрын

    You should try Elite: Dangerous, the salt you'll get there will last you a couple of lifetimes

  • @agent5657
    @agent56578 жыл бұрын

    i bet your neighbors think (oh god hes makeing meth again)

  • @HentaiNat

    @HentaiNat

    8 жыл бұрын

    or they just don't give a fuck. gg, Redstoner.

  • @liamwhatever7146

    @liamwhatever7146

    5 жыл бұрын

    [RS] agent 26.exe redstone I’m wondering how many times he’s had the fire brigade called to his house.

  • @BenjaminGoose

    @BenjaminGoose

    5 жыл бұрын

    You bet they think what?

  • @ruthwik4052

    @ruthwik4052

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @juvnchy

    @juvnchy

    4 жыл бұрын

    makeing

  • @cupofcakee
    @cupofcakee4 жыл бұрын

    this is such a trip now that I’ve seen your newer videos. I can’t believe you used a jagged chunk of broken test tube held on with a metal clip to do science. absolute madman

  • @Someone-ig7we

    @Someone-ig7we

    2 жыл бұрын

    "absolute madman" is just so cringey now idk

  • @jeiberry

    @jeiberry

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nowadays he's saving his absolute madman-ness for nileblue and I'm here for it

  • @vincedibona4687

    @vincedibona4687

    5 ай бұрын

    @Someone-ig7we Saying “cringey” is absolutely cringe-inducing. Always will be.

  • @jaylane7027
    @jaylane70274 жыл бұрын

    Literally all chemistry teachers: Sodium is very reactive. Chlorine is also very reactive. Don’t mix them, you will die painfully. NileRed: *makes big salt explosion*

  • @desperatepsycho

    @desperatepsycho

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Bill Howitzer YUM YUM DUST

  • @desperatepsycho

    @desperatepsycho

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Bill Howitzer McDonald's cocaine

  • @desperatepsycho

    @desperatepsycho

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Bill Howitzer doing cocaine in McDonald's?

  • @karrinechiu5397

    @karrinechiu5397

    3 жыл бұрын

    While my chemistry teacher just put (around) 5 gram chunk of sodium into water because "It's less reactive than Potassium so let's try putting more"

  • @temmietemmieson6756

    @temmietemmieson6756

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@desperatepsycho Rather sugar than salt, there’s more sugar than salt in their food.

  • @eier3252
    @eier32525 жыл бұрын

    "I think I added a _little_ too much water." **BANG**

  • @MadScientist267

    @MadScientist267

    2 жыл бұрын

    Uh.. *snap* but ok lol

  • @hawks1ish
    @hawks1ish7 жыл бұрын

    4:47 this is going to get used as the thumbnail for a bunch of pseudoscience listicle "10 horrifying effects of radiation" videos overlaid with a crappy photoshopped radiation symbol

  • @tailsdblack463

    @tailsdblack463

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @grandmasterjayd1184

    @grandmasterjayd1184

    3 жыл бұрын

    “Mad scientist creates Sodium Chloride! 😱😱” Actually dude, it’s salt.

  • @AdityaKantKushwaha

    @AdityaKantKushwaha

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @hughsgarbagetrucks

    @hughsgarbagetrucks

    2 жыл бұрын

    The head line : person makes deadly sodium chloride a almost dies The acetal : dude it’s salt 🧂

  • @robertcece6972
    @robertcece69728 жыл бұрын

    That last reaction is sodium, sodium hydride, sodium oxide burning in HCL + CL2 + O2. It's important to note that HCL gas is also lighter than CL2 so it pulls the CL2 out of the container unless it's cold. The final product is probably chloride, oxide, hydride, hydroxide.

  • @Auriam

    @Auriam

    6 жыл бұрын

    perhaps that's why he didn't dare to taste it.

  • @DANGJOS

    @DANGJOS

    Жыл бұрын

    Why hydride??

  • @kieranodea771
    @kieranodea7716 жыл бұрын

    It's not just edible salt, it's vital to your life. Makes chemistry really seem crazy when you think of it like that

  • @Teth47
    @Teth478 жыл бұрын

    Sodium Chloride is water soluble. Why bother scraping it off? Rinse it off and recrystalize!

  • @vigneshsenthilnathan3207

    @vigneshsenthilnathan3207

    5 жыл бұрын

    He might have a reason

  • @lucianonarno1408

    @lucianonarno1408

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because if any sodium metal is left, you’ll get fire/an explosion

  • @robertgardner7470

    @robertgardner7470

    4 жыл бұрын

    Check ph because of residual acid.

  • @BackYardScience2000

    @BackYardScience2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    In such a finely powdered NaCl, the elemental sodium content would be negligible. If anything, there might be a tiny, barely detectable whirl of smoke when added to water. It is the chlorine contamination that he is worried about.

  • @BackYardScience2000

    @BackYardScience2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Johnson Adam , recrystalizations in water. Chlorine will dissolve into the water and evaporate as it is boiled off.

  • @bojanglesfries
    @bojanglesfries4 жыл бұрын

    "Uh no dude, its salt." ~ Skeet

  • @Mae_is_gae

    @Mae_is_gae

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's what I said! Sodium chloride!

  • @poisonpotato1

    @poisonpotato1

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/ip59vJOCd6iwftI.html

  • @SKyrim190

    @SKyrim190

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ah, I see you are also a man of culture

  • @aewoon0777
    @aewoon07775 жыл бұрын

    mom: omg we run out of salt me: say no more...

  • @memelox_1705
    @memelox_1705 Жыл бұрын

    Props to the first guy to ever add up two most reactive and dangerous elements and then deciding to taste it

  • @ahogammer6895

    @ahogammer6895

    Жыл бұрын

    LMAO 😂

  • @OmniversalInsect

    @OmniversalInsect

    9 ай бұрын

    They used to use copper sulfate as a food dye so it probably wasn't too farfetched

  • @CountryCowboy008

    @CountryCowboy008

    8 ай бұрын

    The thing is, we harvest them from the sea 😂

  • @johncochran8497

    @johncochran8497

    6 ай бұрын

    An "easier" method is to take a solution of sodium hydroxide (lye) and neutralize it with hydrochloric acid until it has a ph of 7. Then evaporate the water until you get a solid.

  • @vincedibona4687

    @vincedibona4687

    5 ай бұрын

    Someone doesn’t know salt is mined from the Earth.

  • @Metaphix
    @Metaphix7 жыл бұрын

    you made a metal halide bulb!

  • @GunsGuy1990

    @GunsGuy1990

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's more a sodium-vapor lamp :)

  • @rich1051414

    @rich1051414

    6 жыл бұрын

    Exactly the same color as sodium vapor lamps :)

  • @TGears314

    @TGears314

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wonder why it's the same color as sodium vapor lamps????

  • @TGears314

    @TGears314

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm kidding btw

  • @corysummers3008

    @corysummers3008

    6 жыл бұрын

    hps, high pressure sodium light bulb.....

  • @odskeet
    @odskeet3 жыл бұрын

    I like how he just made mustard gas in the first 2 minutes.

  • @joshf-o6696

    @joshf-o6696

    7 ай бұрын

    No, he made chlorine gas. Mustard is a much different but still very dangerous agent. It's called mustard because it's said to smell like mustard.

  • @andremarques3317

    @andremarques3317

    6 ай бұрын

    the mustard gas was actually the sucessor as weapon for the gas created here, the chlorine gas. This is probably the reason people mistake the two

  • @mattk6315
    @mattk63158 жыл бұрын

    "turned my Erlenmeyer flask into a lantern" say, that gives me an idea.......

  • @stonegolem2001

    @stonegolem2001

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kid Kirby right?

  • @1320crusier

    @1320crusier

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kid Kirby ya know.. like sodium lights.. that inhabit fishing boats, stadiums, and street lamps.

  • @EricMcTrainshit

    @EricMcTrainshit

    7 жыл бұрын

    1320crusier Damn, that'd be inefficient and dumb as hell! XD

  • @johnmadden9613

    @johnmadden9613

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sodium lights are a real thing that are in use for real.

  • @caspernicus5822

    @caspernicus5822

    5 жыл бұрын

    *buys christmas lights*

  • @GrimmsDeath
    @GrimmsDeath2 жыл бұрын

    I love when things like this exist. Reminds me of water and how Hydrogen and Oxygen are flammable ( get it's not the oxygen but everything else) but combine the two and viola, puts out fires as does table salt.

  • @zezus001

    @zezus001

    2 жыл бұрын

    combine the two and *viola*

  • @prathamlohia8496

    @prathamlohia8496

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well, sometimes waste aggravates the fire

  • @iSaac-kp5lk

    @iSaac-kp5lk

    2 жыл бұрын

    You forgot the violin as well.

  • @RonWolfHowl

    @RonWolfHowl

    Жыл бұрын

    Not oil fires :)

  • @Nepulk
    @Nepulk8 жыл бұрын

    With the sand method, coudn't you just dissolve it in water, filter the sand and then boil it so you have pure salt?

  • @Slaave

    @Slaave

    8 жыл бұрын

    That's exactly what I was thinking. Salt is water soluble, sand isn't. Perhaps he's wary of unreacted sodium from reacting with the water?

  • @Nepulk

    @Nepulk

    8 жыл бұрын

    Tophat Mike Oh yea didn't think about that, but you could filter the NaOH with a precipitation reaction I think.

  • @origamigek

    @origamigek

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Nepul K But NaOH is very soluble right? And even if you were to add a salt that crashes out the OH, you'd still have the sodium salt of the leftover ion.

  • @Nepulk

    @Nepulk

    8 жыл бұрын

    origamigek Maybe calculate how much mole OH you got, then add the a salt which gets rid of the extra sodiom ions which is the same out as the amount of mole OH. if you then boil the water it should leave you with pure table salt right? It could be totally wrong I'm just freestyling over here.

  • @oceanjunkie5968

    @oceanjunkie5968

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Nepul K Yeah but then you just have recrystallized sodium chloride. He wanted the product that came out of the reaction originally.

  • @robitaill3
    @robitaill3 Жыл бұрын

    Rinse the sand/salt mixture over a coffee filter. The salt will dissolve in the water, sand stays in coffee filter. Then boil the water off. There’s your salt separator

  • @pushbutton8548
    @pushbutton85488 жыл бұрын

    CRUSH YOUR EXPECTATIONS: This is in no way better or cheaper than buying commercial grade sodium chloride, our objective here is to explore the science.

  • @elon6131

    @elon6131

    7 жыл бұрын

    PushButton this is so much better, you also get a temporary lantern!

  • @XcaptainXobliviousX

    @XcaptainXobliviousX

    7 жыл бұрын

    someones been on a nurdrage marathon recently

  • @senvr11

    @senvr11

    7 жыл бұрын

    well, it's true

  • @psirvent8

    @psirvent8

    7 жыл бұрын

    Or a Atmospheric Pressure Sodium Lamp ! Can you use it to grow weed ? Or invent a new streetlight ?

  • @SeraphimKnight

    @SeraphimKnight

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sodium street lamps are a thing already, and they've been for a long time. Those light that are very harshly orange-colored at night? Sodium streetlights.

  • @jubbardtheflubbard4380
    @jubbardtheflubbard43802 жыл бұрын

    I remember a chemistry class in high school where me and my lab partner snuck a little bit of synthesized salt from a lab to taste test it. I forget what salt we actually made (it was a biproduct and not the point of the lab), but it tasted just like normal salt. Good thing our teacher didn't know, I'm pretty sure I signed a contract saying I wouldn't do stuff like that

  • @chel77j

    @chel77j

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm sure.

  • @Ammondn
    @Ammondn8 жыл бұрын

    That was a very nice reaction you captured!

  • @Headshotted718
    @Headshotted7188 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel, its one of my favorite ones on youtube. I bet the one dislike was from someone who expected that it would actually be a simple reaction that they could do in their kitchen and needed salt lol

  • @NileRed

    @NileRed

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Headshotted718 thanks for the love!

  • @GhaziSarhan

    @GhaziSarhan

    8 жыл бұрын

    the one dislike came here for porn, and was disappointed

  • @Headshotted718

    @Headshotted718

    8 жыл бұрын

    Ghazi Sarhan That's waaaaay too true

  • @tenebignisgames4926
    @tenebignisgames49264 жыл бұрын

    "That's what I said, Sodium Chloride!"

  • @poisonpotato1

    @poisonpotato1

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/ip59vJOCd6iwftI.html

  • @tenebignisgames4926

    @tenebignisgames4926

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@poisonpotato1 Honestly the best reply I've seen to a post I completely forgot about

  • @jjenson2006
    @jjenson20068 жыл бұрын

    The stuff that was contaminated in sand, couldn't you have just dissolved it in water, filtered off the sand and then let it recrystallize?

  • @jjortiz7504

    @jjortiz7504

    7 жыл бұрын

    That's what i was thinking. Just dissolve and filter.

  • @smj_

    @smj_

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @sangeetanarendrasingh5416

    @sangeetanarendrasingh5416

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes but some small amount of soluble substances are always present in sand. He would get impure salt.

  • @MrCh0o

    @MrCh0o

    5 жыл бұрын

    @ But that applies as much to the scraping as it does to the dissolving, though

  • @timothytrespas4781
    @timothytrespas47817 жыл бұрын

    I enjoy listening to your narration. Funny calming and always interesting I learn a great deal Thank you Keep up the great work

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo7 жыл бұрын

    I was just thinking it would be really interesting to see a microscopic view of the Sodium while it tarnishes. I'm curious what would happen to the grain boundaries in the metal. In fact, I think you could probably make a whole series based on microscope videos of various chemical reactions.

  • @craiggurnell9192
    @craiggurnell91922 жыл бұрын

    Such an awesome video. Shocked by how long the reaction lasted. Would have been curious to see if you put the crude salt in water if there would have been any left over sodium.

  • @Asstronut
    @Asstronut Жыл бұрын

    You've come so far, this is so wholesome lol

  • @ChickentNug
    @ChickentNug Жыл бұрын

    With the sand-contaminated salt, couldn't he have used water to dissolve the salt and make the more dense sand sink? That way you'd be left with salt water and then you could just get the salt out of that later, right? Or am I missing something

  • @oceanbytez847

    @oceanbytez847

    Жыл бұрын

    this was very early in nile's career and he might have not thought of that.

  • @ChickentNug

    @ChickentNug

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oceanbytez847 maybe I guess. Even at the time of making this video he was way smarter than I am now, though, so I'd be kind of surprised if he didnt think of this unless there is a reason not to do it

  • @danisyx5804

    @danisyx5804

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oceanbytez847 now days he washes everything "with a bit of distilled water" lol

  • @ipsita1227

    @ipsita1227

    Жыл бұрын

    sand may have soluble impurities too , and then it would require crystallisation to get the salt out

  • @ChickentNug

    @ChickentNug

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ipsita1227 good point

  • @ericli9611
    @ericli96117 жыл бұрын

    The product gained wasn't just NaCl, But also Na2O2 in both way. Since sodium combusted in the air, it would definitely react with Oxygen. If Na2O2 is dissolved into water, you would have sodium hydroxide in your food and burnt your throat

  • @GewelReal

    @GewelReal

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Ignisan_66 but he started burning it in the air

  • @yasyasmarangoz3577

    @yasyasmarangoz3577

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GewelReal how?

  • @MakenaForest

    @MakenaForest

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yasyasmarangoz3577 when he made it molten hot before putting it in the chlorine atmosphere

  • @yasyasmarangoz3577

    @yasyasmarangoz3577

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MakenaForest Thank you, I was dumb back then.

  • @_Dio_Brando_69
    @_Dio_Brando_694 жыл бұрын

    Most table salts also contain anti-caking agents such as sodium alluminosilicate, sodium ferrocyanide, potassium ferrocyanide, calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate to prevent clumping and to make packaging and transport easier. Salts may also have iodine as an additive to prevent iodine deficiency. Iodized salt is typically advertised/labeled as such and you can read the ingredients on the package of your table salt to see what anti-caking agents are added, if any.

  • @dudders___1684
    @dudders___16842 жыл бұрын

    I saw this reaction happen in a class when I was in school, was pretty awesome

  • @thomas_swede
    @thomas_swede2 жыл бұрын

    The last reaction with molten red Sodium is so beautiful!!!!

  • @RaExpIn
    @RaExpIn8 жыл бұрын

    This is one of my favourite demonstrations. You could have tested for chloride ions with silver nitrate :)

  • @pacmaninfinity4015
    @pacmaninfinity40155 жыл бұрын

    “What, I’m out of salt, guess I’ll just make some”

  • @yaraidk
    @yaraidk2 жыл бұрын

    I’m a viewer of your vids, I was studying for my chemistry test and this came when I searched for the reaction. Thanks for making studying fun!!

  • @paulkaye9969
    @paulkaye9969 Жыл бұрын

    😃thank you for answering my main question in the last 10 seconds! lol Excellent reaction 👌 well worth the watch again

  • @TrueBlueProd
    @TrueBlueProd7 жыл бұрын

    I've always wanted to see this reaction 😀

  • @banisan2035
    @banisan20357 жыл бұрын

    "Fuck, the table salt is empty again. Well, time to get the Sodium."

  • @zanpekosak2383

    @zanpekosak2383

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bani San Abd pool tablets.😂

  • @banisan2035

    @banisan2035

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nah, we need pure stuff. We want some quality ass table salt. Gonna buy a tank of chlorine.

  • @banisan2035

    @banisan2035

    7 жыл бұрын

    You know, the stuff you can murder people with.

  • @zanpekosak2383

    @zanpekosak2383

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bani San Yes yes! I advise you to maybe try cesium if you want the high grade stuff. And flourine.

  • @vipervidsgamingplus5723

    @vipervidsgamingplus5723

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just don't breath in the gas because you will die pretty quickly if you do

  • @TheBrassCaster
    @TheBrassCaster5 жыл бұрын

    This is one reason why I subscribed to NileRed and Cody's Lab

  • @mikapeltokorpi7671
    @mikapeltokorpi76716 жыл бұрын

    We did ammonium chloride at grade school (salt used in salted licorice, banned as food at least in US and Australia). Bit similar, but less spectacular process. Requires ammonia and hydrogen chloride. Flakes of ammonium chloride fell down to the desk like snow.

  • @HK_808
    @HK_8086 жыл бұрын

    Just a little sodium chloride

  • @gokinezula1689

    @gokinezula1689

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually dude, it's called S A L T

  • @ashleyallan75

    @ashleyallan75

    4 жыл бұрын

    Big mcthankies

  • @yasyasmarangoz3577

    @yasyasmarangoz3577

    4 жыл бұрын

    :D

  • @yasyasmarangoz3577

    @yasyasmarangoz3577

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ardijeams3757 German?

  • @christiankarambay8963

    @christiankarambay8963

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jimmy?

  • @LukeHenderson123
    @LukeHenderson1238 жыл бұрын

    fuck bro ... i jumped like a cat seeing a cucumber ... damn ..

  • @Ubernator

    @Ubernator

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Christian Galesias sick bro

  • @mereadswiki6175
    @mereadswiki61757 жыл бұрын

    the sodium chlorine gas lantern looks so calming!!! :D

  • @MSteamCSM
    @MSteamCSM8 жыл бұрын

    Very cool! Thank you for sharing

  • @pauls0416
    @pauls04167 жыл бұрын

    If you would like to sprinkle it on your food, you could but just make sure the limiting reagent is the sodium, not the chlorine. Also, make sure the source of the chlorine is pure and not contaminated.

  • @benjaminhackett8896
    @benjaminhackett88967 жыл бұрын

    Can I point out that you could very easily dissolve the salt and sand mixture in water and pour the solution through a filter to extract the NaCl?

  • @benjaminhackett8896

    @benjaminhackett8896

    5 жыл бұрын

    Watching this again 2 years later, I thought it was a new video and was going to comment “Why not do a water washing?” when I realized I had already commented on the video. Spooky time travel when you think it's a new video! XD Regardless, great video as always. Keep it up!

  • @yangvolcanos

    @yangvolcanos

    5 жыл бұрын

    Benjamin Hackett left over sodium that didnt fully react could react in the water and turn into sodium hydroxide which cant be separated from the sodium chloride by just using the filter. either way the product isn't pure and crystallising the sodium chloride after dissolving it just takes too much time and there's nothing new for us to learn from doing that

  • @pyro-millie5533
    @pyro-millie55332 жыл бұрын

    So many of your reactions are just so freaking magical to watch! This one is awesome! And the Uranium glass too!

  • @kendrashelemy6553
    @kendrashelemy65535 жыл бұрын

    I’d love to see this redone for your edible Chen series!

  • @raystinger6261
    @raystinger62613 жыл бұрын

    Good video! All that was missing was for him to eat the salt he made. Yeah, maybe the salt was contaminated with sand, broken glass, chlorine and pieces of sodium, but he can dilute the salt in water, filter the water and then boil it down to get the salt back, right? (I'm no chemist, btw)

  • @Someone-sq8im
    @Someone-sq8im3 жыл бұрын

    "Table salt, also known as Sodium Chloride" Subscribed

  • @Squidbush8563
    @Squidbush8563 Жыл бұрын

    I have that exact same table in my back yard. That glass is SUPER tough!

  • @ayzack_edu
    @ayzack_edu2 жыл бұрын

    Now I know how salt is made! Thank you Kanye, very cool!

  • @LocNguyen-se4ec
    @LocNguyen-se4ec8 жыл бұрын

    That figure at 6:05. Nile Red, such a Sand Artist, or should I say Salt Artist

  • @TetroLancer
    @TetroLancer7 жыл бұрын

    Sorry if this is a dumb question, but when the first batch was contaminated with sand, if its table salt, why couldn't the salt be dissolved in water and then filter the sand out?

  • @NileRed

    @NileRed

    7 жыл бұрын

    It could be. But purifying NaCl is not exactly worth the time

  • @TetroLancer

    @TetroLancer

    7 жыл бұрын

    NileRed gotcha but would that not be easier and quicker than going through the other method? was that just for the video?

  • @Ravangers

    @Ravangers

    7 жыл бұрын

    this is just an example in chemistry, this is not how salt is actually made for consumption or applications. Salt is mined from the earth like other resources in beds that are ancient evaporated lakes or seas, not created chemically, so about being quicker and easier, digging it up is the quickest and cheapest way

  • @jmowreader9555

    @jmowreader9555

    7 жыл бұрын

    They don't exactly dig it up: they drill holes in the salt, pump in water, allow the salt to dissolve for a year, pump out the water and let it evaporate in ponds. In the old days before pumps were invented, a LOT of people died mining salt - which is why getting sent to work in a salt mine was a common death sentence. Salt absorbs moisture. If that moisture just happens to be in a salt miner...well, guess what.

  • @chemistryguy9016

    @chemistryguy9016

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Ravangers it is but the salt disolves from the water.

  • @larvitardratini5965
    @larvitardratini59655 жыл бұрын

    Idk why but watching people cut sodium metal is super satisfying

  • @arjovenzia
    @arjovenzia5 жыл бұрын

    Sodium ionizing is such a pretty color. Probably got alot to do with mans fascination with fire. With my high voltage, high current experiments (6-700w @ 30-40 kV, which is in the mA range, but thats heaps enough for solid plasma), a large NaCl crystal was one of the coolest things to zap. Once it got hot enough, crazy bright. Being electricity, it always found some odd shaped 'shortest' paths, but a furious glow. Good call to bottle that magic n call it technology. Cool vid dude, as always, many thanks.

  • @Pyramid132420
    @Pyramid1324208 жыл бұрын

    Jesus! I was wearing headphones when the sodium exploded. I jumped and nearly fell out of my chair!

  • @generalchicken3385
    @generalchicken33855 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea sodium was the English word for Natrium. Had to google it since I was sure table salt is NaCl. Apparently it's called Natrium in Latin, German, Swedish and Finnish etc. It's called Sodium in English and French etc. Why the "split" name? Edit: Just realized it's the same with Tungsten / Wolfram. Lots of countries use one of the two names? Quite confusing ^^

  • @luissantiago6699

    @luissantiago6699

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pretty cool I didn’t know that either

  • @shantanukawale9127

    @shantanukawale9127

    4 жыл бұрын

    Would be same for plumbum too

  • @eurovision50

    @eurovision50

    4 жыл бұрын

    And what's funnier is that tungsten is named in Swedish. It means 'heavy stone'. And yet the Swedes themselves call it Wolfram, instead of the actual Swedish name that's used in English. The Swedes also call nitrogen 'suffocation'.

  • @user-tt6bc7hd2l

    @user-tt6bc7hd2l

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kalium/potassium

  • @magirl1803

    @magirl1803

    3 жыл бұрын

    love using natrium, plumbum, kalium just bc my low iq cannot relate Na with sodium sometimes

  • @phelhadsu4080
    @phelhadsu40803 жыл бұрын

    This is what ive been looking for my whole life

  • @sigurdbigset
    @sigurdbigset Жыл бұрын

    I just started chemistry class in High School, thanks for making these videos

  • @coloneljak42_
    @coloneljak42_6 жыл бұрын

    Big McThankies from McSpankies!

  • @ashleyallan75

    @ashleyallan75

    4 жыл бұрын

    ColonelJak42 thank you

  • @azrael6280
    @azrael62802 жыл бұрын

    Future Nile would taste that salt

  • @rahulg2961

    @rahulg2961

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ngl I did this in my college chemistry class and our professor has a field day screaming at me as to why that's not the smartest choice. Honestly I guessed it was NaCl but we had other salts we had to test which were toxic.

  • @KotMatvej
    @KotMatvej8 жыл бұрын

    Nice experiment! This is that case when you get something quite ordinary from something extraordinary.

  • @jhyland87
    @jhyland875 жыл бұрын

    Wow that was bright!

  • @LuisBorja1981
    @LuisBorja19817 жыл бұрын

    Did you check if it was mixed with NaOH probably made from the reaction with oxygen and humidity from the air?

  • @donnaperyginathome

    @donnaperyginathome

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, he should have checked the pH.

  • @anthonydavidson6139
    @anthonydavidson61395 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos man, I’m just wondering where all the salt on earth came from. It’s not like there are chlorine tablets and pure sodium laying around everywhere

  • @robertchappell8086

    @robertchappell8086

    4 жыл бұрын

    I mean pure sodium and chlorine gas arent very common NOW, but there are plenty of metal and halogen containing compounds which when dissolved in water, would HAPPILY do double replacement to form water soluble salts and some non water soluble byproduct... or just water. That too.

  • @pumpkinsunset7286
    @pumpkinsunset72863 жыл бұрын

    ive done this in college its really fun 🤩

  • @BunsenBurns
    @BunsenBurns8 жыл бұрын

    Nice video! I did a video including reaction with bromine and iodine. I never did scrap the sodium salts out of their containers though!

  • @bluelichen9696
    @bluelichen96967 жыл бұрын

    I rewatch this just to see the glowing erlenmeyer.

  • @eunaekim9216
    @eunaekim92165 жыл бұрын

    They say you can't judge a book by its cover. Well, in this case you can't judge a reaction by its violence!

  • @S8tan7
    @S8tan74 жыл бұрын

    That's such an extra way of making salt

  • @Scooble-ev9vp
    @Scooble-ev9vp2 жыл бұрын

    6 years In the future I'm taking notes on this for school, congrats NileRed

  • @nienke7713
    @nienke77135 жыл бұрын

    Would you be able to create safe-to-eat salt from reacting sodium metal with chlorine gas (on industrial scale), how about reaction HCl with NaOH?

  • @pedrovargas2181

    @pedrovargas2181

    2 жыл бұрын

    Both methods are far too expensive and dangerous for anything outside of laboratory demonstrations. Table salt (NaCl) is extracted from sea water or salt mines; HCl and NaOH have to be synthesized and sell for far more than table salt; not to mention chlorine gas and sodium metal.

  • @tedclayton6913
    @tedclayton69138 жыл бұрын

    am I the only one that jumped when he added to much water to the sodium? I jumped like it blew up in my face. lmao

  • @esra_erimez

    @esra_erimez

    6 жыл бұрын

    No, I jumped too. that was a year ago, I just landed.

  • @rpalacios4215

    @rpalacios4215

    6 жыл бұрын

    Human primitive instinct, normal.

  • @paulomartins1008
    @paulomartins10082 жыл бұрын

    This definitely needs a remake as part of your edible chem. series.

  • @mars7612
    @mars76122 жыл бұрын

    We did this experiment in Chrmistry class! With ours, we shot chlorine gas straight at the sodium. We also had a bag of unpopped popcorn suspended above it so it got popped and salted all at once with the reaction

  • @Ciaran55
    @Ciaran558 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are damn interesting. What do you do with the chemicals after you make them, for instance the chlorine gas? Terrorise the neighbourhood?

  • @NileRed

    @NileRed

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ciaran55 It diffuses into the air. I can't really store gases. Liquids and solids are stored in containers though.

  • @ilhumrahmanpushpita2838
    @ilhumrahmanpushpita28383 жыл бұрын

    Why need an electric bulb if u can make sodium chloride?😂😂😂

  • @iifroggieusedtobeiifxzzy8753
    @iifroggieusedtobeiifxzzy87534 жыл бұрын

    i just started learning this

  • @fano72
    @fano724 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating how long and bright it burns. I thought it will get a bright flash and thats it.

  • @cmd2tuts
    @cmd2tuts6 жыл бұрын

    Hey NileRed, I know this is an old video but I have a request, could you possibly revisit the molten sodium on chlorine gas reaction in the flask, or the 'lantern reaction' as you put it but this time in an oxygen free environment? Perhaps just by placing the string holding the Na on a stopper that is then placed over the flask to keep some of the atmosphere out? The reason I ask is because there is an old alchemy tale about a thing called a 'Hermetic Light', which is essentially a light-bulb created by using what I've translated to be sodium metal and an unknown gas in a sealed airtight container which was said to glow indefinitely(or a very long time) first explored by the legendary alchemist Hermes, when I saw that reaction I could think of nothing else and I would love to see just how long this reaction could be sustained in a hermetically sealed container or if it would work at all. I know, I know, it's wishy-washy alchemy bs... but still. I'd be cool to see what actually happens. Just because these people didn't have the benefit of the scientific method doesn't necessarily mean they where wasting their time 100% of the time.

  • @x537k194a1353
    @x537k194a13537 жыл бұрын

    try reacting cesium with fluorine

  • @cerverg

    @cerverg

    5 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoCDqMOQlLPecpM.html It's so much fun ;)

  • @christianisaman9233
    @christianisaman92336 жыл бұрын

    Well done!

  • @wickandde
    @wickandde3 жыл бұрын

    As much as I love these channels I'm always so thankful they're not my neighbors lol 🙏

  • @atreyabain
    @atreyabain7 жыл бұрын

    Ah my favourite two chemists, and both of them have the initials NR.

  • @brockm7256
    @brockm72567 жыл бұрын

    NaOH + HCl = H2O + NaCl then dry

  • @gman981000

    @gman981000

    7 жыл бұрын

    That's boring though

  • @chemistryguy9016

    @chemistryguy9016

    7 жыл бұрын

    +br m now thats just stupid because my brother almost died by doing that.

  • @Swedmonkei

    @Swedmonkei

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well he must have forgot to dilute the acid then.

  • @AppulseGames

    @AppulseGames

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then ur increasing the salt in the experiment

  • @swastikgupta1835

    @swastikgupta1835

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bro it would contain some amount of hcl and naoh due to equip concept...

  • @hokiepokie333_CicadaMykHyn
    @hokiepokie333_CicadaMykHyn5 жыл бұрын

    That's one heck of a chem light! 💡

  • @jbtechcon7434
    @jbtechcon74345 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. A couple of other things you could do with this: 1) Cut a hole in a barrier to pass a beam of the lantern light through a prism and see the yellow sodium lines. 2) Dissolve the product salt in water and check the pH, to determine how much turned into NaCl and how much NaO. 3) Flood your flask and test tube with nitrogen beforehand to displace the oxygen, so your burn will be mostly in the chlorine. If you smell a little ammonia, that was some of the nitrogen reacting with the Na, but there won't be much.

  • @mexicanmuslim
    @mexicanmuslim7 жыл бұрын

    Two very reactive Elements when combined can be so unreactive and plays a big part in life.

  • @GogiRegion

    @GogiRegion

    6 жыл бұрын

    (+Draco Pheonix) I mean, it’s a salt. It’ll be two reactive things combined to create an inert substance.

  • @Micropterus06

    @Micropterus06

    6 жыл бұрын

    This is actually a profound realisation

  • @batenkait0s657

    @batenkait0s657

    5 жыл бұрын

    when they react they lose quite a bit of energy witch is why it takes things like electrolysis to split them up

  • @ngroy8636
    @ngroy86367 жыл бұрын

    is there's a way to reverse, turning the table salt into Na and Cl?

  • @pietrotettamanti7239

    @pietrotettamanti7239

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ching Ting Ng of course, but it's really difficult. you have to mix it with CaCl2, melt the mixture (600 C°) and electrolyze it. search "Downs cell" to find out more.

  • @HunterSash
    @HunterSash2 жыл бұрын

    4:21 The power of the sun in the palm of my hand

  • @emersonchen086
    @emersonchen0866 жыл бұрын

    Such a nice chemical lesson !

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick6822 жыл бұрын

    So how large was the reaction and when did it occur that created all the salt in our world today so that the oceans are substantially salty, as well as all the various salt mines littered around the globe? That much chlorine and sodium existed at some point? When? How?!

  • @the_linguist_ll

    @the_linguist_ll

    2 жыл бұрын

    It didn't happen at once

  • @Markcool2011
    @Markcool20115 жыл бұрын

    If this was Cody’s lab he would’ve eaten it

  • @johncopenhaver4477
    @johncopenhaver44772 жыл бұрын

    It's crazy that two elements are so deadly but we wouldn't be alive without the combination of the two

  • @isbestlizard
    @isbestlizard4 жыл бұрын

    I will use this method to light my home

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