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

"SODIUM IS a small world," says Frédéric Chaminant, sales director of France's Métaux Spéciaux SA, the world's largest sodium metal producer. Global demand of 80,000 to 90,000 metric tons per year is ...

What if we could create metal made of water? Pure water itself is almost perfect as an insulator. Water found naturally in the world is a perfect conduit for electricity due to the impurities and ...

A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more ...

Sodium is an extremely active element that always links itself with another element. Sodium is a silver-colored metal which is soft enough to cut with a knife. However, sodium is an extremely reactive ...