A hazmat incident that prompted a shelter-in-place order for a section of Yonkers on Friday, March 14, was caused by a ...

A small piece of sodium metal is placed in water. The sodium reacts with the water and gets very hot, producing sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. The demonstration shown in this video is very ...

Sodium combines with water to produce an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and copious amounts of hydrogen gas, in a violently exothermic fashion. None of this is good for critters and it’s ...

sodium hydroxide + hydrochloric acid → sodium chloride + water Just enough hydrochloric acid is added from a burette to neutralise the sodium hydroxide. You can check the reaction mixture using ...

Some residents at the Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers were asked to shelter in place on Friday due to a chemical reaction involving a DEP truck The incident happened just before 11 a.m. and involved a 3 ...

Sodium aluminate forms through the chemical reaction of aluminum oxide with sodium hydroxide and water, as follows: The residues sink gradually to the bottom of the tank and are later removed. In the ...