Triflic Acid
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Reaction of elemental potassium with sodium hydroxide
The nurdrage way of making sodium is a bit too long for my liking. So I was wondering if the method for making potassium, which is done in only 3
hours, would work for sodium. Basically, if a flask were set up with equal amounts of both KOH and NaOH and then run. Would any potassium formed
immediately react with the NaOH to give Na and KOH?
There wasn't a fire, we just had an uncontrolled rapid oxidation event at the power plant.
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clearly_not_atara
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I don't think this can be answered except by experiment. You may also produce NaK, which is pyrophoric, so caveat lector!
[Edited on 04-20-1969 by clearly_not_atara]
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Triflic Acid
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Oh shit, didn’t think of NaK. Might want to use an excess of NaOH then
There wasn't a fire, we just had an uncontrolled rapid oxidation event at the power plant.
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