Making table salt using sodium metal and chlorine gas

Chlorine and sodium are individually very reactive, but together they form regular old table salt.

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[snosibsnob]

I was running out of salt, and needed some for eggs. Thanks!

[cupofcakee]

this is such a trip now that I’ve seen your newer videos. I can’t believe you used a jagged chunk of broken test tube held on with a metal clip to do science. absolute madman

[GuyFromJupiter]

I've always loved that two extremely dangerous elements could be so harmless when mixed together.

[agent]

i bet your neighbors think (oh god hes makeing meth again)

[frederickfugglesworth]

Sodium just looks so satisfying to cut. I don't know why.

[cheeseisawesome]

hmm, this seems like a lot of work. I just go to my friend's house and play a couple games of Smash Bros. and I get enough salt to last me a couple of months.

[jaylane]

Literally all chemistry teachers: Sodium is very reactive. Chlorine is also very reactive. Don’t mix them, you will die painfully.

NileRed: *makes big salt explosion*

[kieranodea]

It's not just edible salt, it's vital to your life. Makes chemistry really seem crazy when you think of it like that

[robertcece]

That last reaction is sodium, sodium hydride, sodium oxide burning in HCL + CL2 + O2. It's important to note that HCL gas is also lighter than CL2 so it pulls the CL2 out of the container unless it's cold. The final product is probably chloride, oxide, hydride, hydroxide.

[eier]

"I think I added a _little_ too much water."

**BANG**

[hawksish]

4:47 this is going to get used as the thumbnail for a bunch of pseudoscience listicle "10 horrifying effects of radiation" videos overlaid with a crappy photoshopped radiation symbol

[lawson]

mom: omg we run out of salt
me: say no more...

[Teth]

Sodium Chloride is water soluble. Why bother scraping it off? Rinse it off and recrystalize!

[bojanglesfries]

"Uh no dude, its salt." ~ Skeet

[mattk]

"turned my Erlenmeyer flask into a lantern" say, that gives me an

[memelox_]

Props to the first guy to ever add up two most reactive and dangerous elements and then deciding to taste it

[odskeet]

I like how he just made mustard gas in the first 2 minutes.

[Nepulk]

With the sand method, coudn't you just dissolve it in water, filter the sand and then boil it so you have pure salt?

[GrimmsDeath]

I love when things like this exist. Reminds me of water and how Hydrogen and Oxygen are flammable ( get it's not the oxygen but everything else) but combine the two and viola, puts out fires as does table salt.

[robitaill]

Rinse the sand/salt mixture over a coffee filter. The salt will dissolve in the water, sand stays in coffee filter. Then boil the water off. There’s your salt separator