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 ...

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 ...

One day, our wimpy teacher decided to show us the "sliver of sodium in a water trough" experiment, so he donned protective goggles, erected a safety screen and proceeded to bore us all ...

Water is essential for all chemistry and life, yet understanding how it interacts with dissolved ions—such as sodium and ...

We teamed up with Cody's Lab to cut pure sodium metal. The sodium reacts explosively with water, creating fireballs and ...

MESSRS. C. O. DAVIS and H. L. Johnston report 1 that when metallic sodium is dissolved in heavy water, the diplogen content of the evolved hydrogen is reduced and the diplogen content of the solution ...

Even if you slept your way through high school chemistry, there was typically one day that ensured you were awake. That’s when, after an extensive safety lecture, the teacher brought out the alkali ...

A fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada's main north-south highway for almost 24 hours in October was caused by rainfall that seeped ...