Mixing sodium with mercury

2021-05-27

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Mercury is easily able to form alloys with most other metals. It's pretty common to combine sodium and mercury, which can be fun, and a bit dangerous. I did this on my main channel, and I basically just shoved sodium metal into mercury. The reaction generates a lot of heat, and it's usually enough to boil the mercury, and light the sodium on fire.

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