Reaction of Sodium & Chlorine

Yea that stuff will burn a hole through your floor

well yes and no. Sodium is very reactive with water, and will actually set the air on fire around it. If you were to hole it in your hand, it would start to react with the moisture in it and create a burning sensation.

They should do that in a fume cupboard. Adding to chernobleman's comment, I doubt sodium is corrosive to the skin and it does not explode when it reacts with water. It only gives of hygrogen gas. Only potassium is exothemic enough to produce a flame, but I am not sure about rubidium or caesium.

Actually, Sodium is highly corrosive to skin and is poisonous. Not to mention it explodes when it touches water.

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yeah i thought i was wrong.. i did this stuff almost a year ago and i was puttin it up without my stuff lol

sweatt, everything you said is wrong. The -ide suffix is for binary compounds, such as NaCl (sodium chloride) which is table salt. If it had an -ite suffix (NA2SO4, sodium sulfite) that would mean it had a sulfite (SO4) ion, not Hydrogen. And chlorine is highly toxic.

its not table salt yet you have to add hydrogen to get sodium chloride... whenever u add hydrogen to a compound it has the ide rule
sodium+chlorine is not enough.... chlorine is only toxic if u inhale a lot of it

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well, you cant find sodium metal in nature, only sodium cations. we produce sodium by electrolysis from melting NaCl and store them in oil.

And right, the sodium will explode when it reacts with the water, and pure sodium is very rarely found in nature.

Both of them are very dangerous ¬.¬, and you shouldn't be playing with either of them with the right protection and such (especially when it comes to Chlorine)

only chlorine is toxic, not sodium.

it's amazing that these two very reactive and toxic chemicals make up table salt.

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sodium metal is so reactive, it will react with moisture in air before even reaching the flask, coating itself with an oxide layer, preventing further reaction.

drop of water will dissolve the oxide layer, and since the reaction between the two is highly exothermic, it will raise the temperature inside the flask, allowing contact and reaction between cl2 and sodium metal.

dude. sodium reacts naturally with water. so how do we know that this experiment is even true? i realize that when sodium and chlorine react it makes sodium chloride (salt) but wat does adding the water do?

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your right.

just, for the love of god, don't inhale it.