But seriously, don't drop Sodium in gasoline

Water and soap frothed up in gasoline?
I think that would proper blow 🧐

"well nothing happens because-"
Me: *SHI***"

My highschool science teacher had a large bucket set up in class one day and chucked a piece in without telling us first. We were all soaked, but it was fun.

It's smart cause you're thinking
"huh, so i can dip sodium into some gasoline"
And then you look at the title

They keep pure sodium, and im guessing some other elements that have explosive reaction to water in gasoline, not much of a big news

Um you didnt have at least an inch of water in the vessel. Had you had more water it would have totally worked. I know from experience. Takes a bit of time for the olefins to stratify giving you time to get away before it explodes.

i believe that liquid gasoline isn't necessarily flamable either, the fumes are

This title is so annoying I'm gonna have to go drop Sodium in gasoline right now

im never eating spam again ☠️💀☠️

You just gotta burn the gas with the sodium in it lol seemed pretty obvious to me.

The trick is to lick it before dipping in gasoline.

Of all the sciences, I think I respect the early chemists the most.
Their experiments could easily lead to being blinded or deafened... hell, even killed.

Trial and error had to be the way they learned all the things modern chemists know. I can't imagine how simultaneously fun and terrifying those experiments must have been.

So if you didnt dip it in the gasoline first the gas/water mixture would’ve worked? Or it’s irrelevant because the gas somehow coats it before the water gets to the sodium ?

OK, I want to do this for a science project, where could I get some sodium?

I had a teacher in high school who got herself banned from doing the sodium demonstration because she threw a huge chunk into a sink and burnt the ceiling tiles.
She won Teacher of the Year for our state a few years later.

What if I swallow it

So what I’m hearing is that if you want to make something fire-retardant, add gasoline?

Now do it without having dunked it in gasoline first

Small bowl of water floating in a bigger bowl of gasoline, that should do it lol

I'm confused about this project.. You put water in the gas already, so when you say "all we need is good old water" at the end of the video, (then throw something that looks like a coin in the solution). So, is it sodium that you tossed into the bowl that has gas and water? I'd like to do this project with me and my 3 sons. This will get their attention and hopefully spark something in their curiosity about science.

So would dropping a salty fry at the gas station on some gas puddle have the same effect?

Safer to play with gasoline then with water: me with a big ol pool

Between the lines: sodium is weird

People think that gasoline is just explodey water but it really isn't. If it was that crazy volatile, it wouldn't be a great fuel source.
Everything I thought I knew about gasoline got turned on its head when I saw a match extinguished in an open barrel of gasoline.

I guess I'm the lone person who thinks this guy was really reasonable and polite and the judge was grouchy and unreasonable for no real reason or benefit

Oxygen specifically.

Things you thought you'd never hear:

Gas + sodium + fire

No balls. Do it. You won't. No balls.

This is the reason why alkali metals come shipped in a container of mineral oil

What about a cup of water in a bowl of gasoline?

Do this with francium pls

When i was a kid i threw many lit matches into a bowl of gassoline. It's shocking how much harder it is to ignite than in cartoons. It never did ignite before my friends parents saw what what we were doing in his driveway.

Please get someone else to narrate Jesus christ that voice

Ok, but what if I just get high off the gasoline fumes

Nothing, it’s a distillate of oil. They coat sodium metal in oil already. Just because it’s wet, doesn’t mean it reacts like water. But of course you explain that.

Why are you putting sodium in laundry detergent?

Doesn't this prove that the gasoline is indeed good for the environment? 😂

Dam I feel so stupid for doing a bachelor's degree in industrial chemistry and not knowing this

I was expecting it to catch the gasoline on fire and then explode

Gas generally doesn't explode when it's in fluid form. It has to be sprayed as a mist to combust explosively (fuel injectors)

Electric vehicles and salt water…What could go wrong…

But if you leave gasoline around the bowl, could the heat generated from dropping sodium in water ignite the gasoline?

Put an emulsifier in with the water gasoline mixture and see what will happen

Try hydro diesel, or high ethanol gas.

Why on earth would you make that title and thumbnail and then completely remove the gasoline altogether. Just make the video about sodium and water

Salt plus oil equals big boom

Now put a bowl of gasoline next to the water when you drop the sodium