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Banned on 1/22/2011 for repeated rule violations after multiple warnings. Registered Member #3299
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All i can find are pebble sized pellets, and i want a big brick, any one making or selling it
Lol I want to flush some sodium down an old toilet
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All i can find are pebble sized pellets, and i want a big brick, any one making or selling it Lol I want to flush some sodium down an old toilet
There is a reason that you have trouble finding your brick. It is a dangerous substance that is very expensive to transport. This sort of thing does not scale well and there is a possibility of you blowing your head off.
If you want to do stupid things like this we don't really want to know about it.
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bwang wrote ...
Electrolyzing salt water produces NaOH, not Na. You need to electrolyze molten salt.
No, when you electrolyze salt water, you get hydrogen, oxygen, and chlorine gas., effectively separating the sodium. not sure how you would keep it stable.
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william L wrote ...
bwang wrote ...
Electrolyzing salt water produces NaOH, not Na. You need to electrolyze molten salt.
No, when you electrolyze salt water, you get hydrogen, oxygen, and chlorine gas., effectively separating the sodium. not sure how you would keep it stable.
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Arg - forgot about that, I was too fixated on the use of fused NaOH (Castner process) and production of metallic Sodium.
Why is it that at the age of 13 when I made my own metal that it never crossed my mind to flush a load of it down the toilet?. I must have been very boring.
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I believe from my conversations with one of the companies that make solid Na and K, the salt is heated until it is molten. Then, a large current is used to start the electrolysis, yielding Na and Cl2. The heat from the conducted current keeps the bath molten. Of course, one has the issues of containment.
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Looking for LOTS of sodium
