Click the play button on the video above, and you’ll see a piece of sodium leaping over and over to get its (metaphoric) toes out of the water. It looks like a cute little experiment — but it’s not ...

Discover the explosive consequences of ten tons of pure sodium dumped in a lake, revealing sodium's dangerous reaction with water. Sodium is highly reactive. It's way over on the left side of the ...

Salts are produced in the reactions of acids. Some salts can be useful, and so chemists sometimes carry out preparations of pure salts. There are two different approaches to making a pure salt which ...

Many of us gained our first appreciation for chemistry upon witnessing a high school teacher drop a chunk of sodium into a beakerful of water. You may think you know the explanation behind the ...