Turning Eggs & Baking Soda into Sodium Metal
Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to turn everyday household items like eggs and baking soda into something as unique as sodium metal? Well, it turns out that with a bit of chemistry know-how, you can!
Materials Needed:
- Eggs
- Baking soda
- Aluminum foil
- Bunsen burner or other heat source
Instructions:
- Start by placing an egg in a cup and covering it with baking soda.
- Wrap the egg in aluminum foil, making sure it is completely covered.
- Using a Bunsen burner or other heat source, heat the egg for several minutes until it begins to emit gases.
- After the gases have stopped, carefully unwrap the egg from the foil.
- You should now have a small amount of sodium metal formed on the surface of the egg.
This process works by using the heat to break down the baking soda, which releases carbon dioxide gas. The gas then reacts with the aluminum foil to form sodium metal, which adheres to the surface of the egg.
While this experiment may not yield large amounts of sodium metal, it is a fun and educational way to explore chemistry. Just be sure to handle the materials carefully and have adult supervision when using the heat source.
So next time you’re looking for a unique science project, consider turning eggs and baking soda into sodium metal!
can you explain more the process to create sodium ? i try it several time like nuridrage, but one one time get very small yeld … wich kind of mineral oil ? tmeperature ? etc ?
6:34 if an egg shell weighs 6 grams thats 166 eggs. which would take a family of four, each eating 2 eggs a day, about 3 weeks to eat. A hen lays ABOUT one egg every day so it would take a single chicken about 5.5 months to lay all those eggs, but we will be generous and give her 6. 6 months to produce one kg of eggshell.
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Oh wow i didnt expect you to do the new nurd rage reaction for the sodium, great video!
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limestone is even more accessible than eggs!heat till it glows white hot giving CaO then hydrate to CaOH with water
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You do know that molten salt electrolysis exists, right?
You could have electrolyzed molten sodium chloride producing chlorine gas and metallic sodium.
hey. great video. very refreshing. thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Cool bro this is actually a pretty cool idea
Why not calcium metal?! 🤷🏻♂️🤔
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Eggs are how I pH my garden up, they have a lot of calcium sulfate too
Nice! How about a video showing how to make phosphorescent Calcium Sulfide? That'd be interesting because pure CaS isn't phosphorescent but (impure) CaS, from egg and oyster shells, is. You can discuss that "phosphorescent" doesn't mean Phosphorus is present and how various doping elements enhance the effect.
I really enjoyed your chemistry video on how to extract sodium metal from baking soda. The only problem for me was that the narrator was speaking too fast with an accent that was difficult for me to understand. I’d actually have to go back and listen to it two or three times in order to catch everything that was said.