Timeline for What exactly is happening when sodium, potassium, or other alkali metal explodes in water?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2020 at 16:57 | history | edited | Mathew Mahindaratne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected the sited reference (given website is automatically changing to current TOC).
|
| Jan 21, 2019 at 21:09 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | However, a note of caution. The experiments dealt with a liquid sodium/potassium alloy. The sciencemag.org link reports that the behavior of solid sodium is inconsistent, and often produces no explosion at all. | |
| Dec 10, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | A.K. | For those stuck behind paywalls or that like videos: High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes! | |
| Mar 17, 2015 at 4:42 | comment | added | docscience | Science also published an article on this after the study came out in Nature and provided a link to a video here: news.sciencemag.org/chemistry/2015/01/… Absolutely incredible finding after all these years. | |
| Jan 31, 2015 at 3:17 | review | First posts | |||
| Jan 31, 2015 at 7:12 | |||||
| Jan 31, 2015 at 3:14 | vote | accept | bwDraco | ||
| Jan 31, 2015 at 3:14 | history | answered | Sam Meredith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |