This is just a short video about some of the properties of sodium metal. The mechanism of the explosion can be found in the link below to a Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.html Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA -------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nilered Youtube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/c/nilered/join NileRed Merch Store (NileRed Pin & Keychain): https://store.dftba.com/collections