Brainiac Science Abuse - Alkali Metals

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The world-famous alkali metal experiment. Forget about that cute little drop of sodium burning the water in your petri dish, those two metals are the real deal

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  • yeah I'm pretty ...

    yeah I'm pretty sure you can test the remaining water and find out what metal was dropped. the reaction displaces a hydrogen ion from water and replaces it with the metal. for example after dropping sodium in, you would find sodium hydroxide in the water. with caesium it should be caesium hydroxide.. and so on

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  • Is there any trace ...

    Is there any trace of it left? Say someone goes into a pool, and drops one of these in there. So it creates the SPLASH, would you be able to go back to the body of water left, and test it to figure out what metal was dropped? Maybe by pH? How about francium, do you have any vids with francium?

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