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Cleaning sodium metal
A couple years ago I bought some sodium metal and it came in foil pouches . I thought the foil would last longer , I was wrong. Upon inspection of
pouches after being idle in storage, noticed the hydroxide leaking and a hole in the pouch. Bought some mineral oil and heated it @ 100-130 C for 30
minutes . Pealed the metal oxide and store the good metal in the m/oil. Even the pouches that were intact had oxidation. The pealing were piled up and
set off with some water .
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j_sum1
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NileRed has a good youtube video on cleaning sodium and another on potassium. (The K one is excellent.)
IIRC, Doug's lab also has a good sodium cleaning video.
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Richard3050
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I agree check out the video that Nilered posted. It is really informative and worked when I was cleaning the sodium metal that I had sitting around
for a couple of years.
"Science knowledge only adds to the excitement... I don't understand how it subtracts."
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