Alone, it's explosive. Combined with chlorine, it's table salt. When mixed with water, sodium reacts spectacularly. The combination produces sodium hydroxide, hydrogen gas and heat (the technical term ...

The spectacular reaction of alkali metals with water was poorly understood — despite being a staple of chemistry classes. It’s the classic piece of chemical tomfoolery: take a lump of sodium or ...

Chemists have scrutinized a classic piece of bench chemistry — the explosion that happens when sodium metal hits water — and revised the thinking of how it works. On contact with water, the metal ...

They must be stored under oil to prevent them reacting with the air or water vapour. All Group 1 elements react with water to produce a metal hydroxide and hydrogen. This is the equation for the ...

For decades, science enthusiasts have delighted at the famously energetic way sodium and potassium explode on contact with water. Researchers in Europe now show that the long-accepted explanation for ...

The atoms in the reactants are: 1 calcium atom, 2 chlorine atoms, 2 sodium atoms, 2 hydrogen atoms, 2 carbon atoms, and 6 oxygen atoms The atoms in the products are: 1 calcium atom, 2 chlorine atoms, ...

They must be stored under oil to prevent them reacting with the air or water vapour. All Group 1 elements react with water to produce a metal hydroxide and hydrogen. This is the equation for the ...