NaK is already used in solar array generators.

@@patrickjanecke5894 I hadn't heard that! That is also kind of wild. Call me timid, but "may catch fire when exposed to air" is generally a deal-breaker for me when it comes to infrastructure. Still, a solar array spontaneously catches fire & explodes, it's probably *not* international news.

@@KSignalEingang 😁 lol

...and now I'm reading that about 10 years ago somebody was marketing a CPU cooler that used NaK... Welps.

It is already used as a coolant on nuke subs.

Explosion is an adequate punishment for putting salt on a banana

if you put salt on bananas, then we have bigger problems than explosion

My banana exploded, but it wasn't salt I put on it.

@@restingsleep Salty bananas.

@@restingsleep come on, don't be salty

It's called a eutectic -- an alloy mixture with a lower melting point than the constituent metals! There's solid eutectic systems too, but NaK is the most obvious example for demonstrating the phenomenon

@@actuallyasriel I remember that word, eutectic, from my Materials Science class back in college. I never thought the lower melting point would result in being a liquid at room temperature. But that makes sense now since both metals are already soft at room temperature.

Or even weirder, two gasses reacting to form a liquid (H2O)

@@FleshWizard69420 NaK is an alloy, not a compound. It is less obvious why it would have a lower melting point since no new compound is formed.

​@@ShihammeDarc consider adding water to glycol. No new compound is made, but the freezing point of both is affected.

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omg amogus?????????

I think his video on Ferofluid (on NileRed) is the most satisfying one I've seen

AMONG AMONG AMONG US

That's some explosively red results right there!

Yikes!

NileBrown, probably: Uses for enema.

NileBlack, probably: *drops it into a lake*

That'd be a great form of torture. I wonder what would happen 🤔

Works on all types of human issues.

*if you think about it...

Probably the sole reason you are here

More like human history

@@wally7856 sHEESSH

I feel like all chemist are like that. Or should be. 😂 Chemistry is so much fun, when you get it. I am a total amateur! But I was best in my class practical chemistry when I was in training for my job. Which wouldn't require much lab work, but you still had to learn all the basics in theoretical and practical chemistry. One of the teachers was so cool, and I would giggle all day long about the funny way she would try and get an answer out of us. After a while more and more students would get it and we would all giggle silently and make faces... waiting for the rest to follow mentally. Is that making sense? I shouldn't be commenting at 1a.m.🙈😅 Goood night

lol

Underrated...🤣🤣😅

"At this point it looks like a pile of junk" "But this should change when i start squishing it" sounds like a mad scientist

​@@obamafriedchicken7191 he is a mad scientist

Yes😂

most definitely

Every time NileGreen wakes up 👏🏻

Accidents? What are those? Never heard of 'em

Surely

Not a chance

this comment deserves more recognition

Reported

You beat me to it 😂

I see what you combined there 😏

Delete this.

Oh wow only 278 likes

Nice observation

Yeah, a mole of it is like 23 grams

Sodium ain't even denser than water

@@Kiromony did you just have a stroke?

w h a t

best example is NaCl

Hydrogen and oxygen both are gas but H2O is liquid lmao

@@klartext5806 yeah two substances that are very deadly to living things, sodium reacting violently with water and chlorine being poisonous, and they make one of the most important salts which is necessary for our survival.

@@Luffy_wastaken yes but going from a less-dense to more-dense phase isn't uncommon. Like your example, or forming a precipitate from two liquids. Going the other way without the addition of heat or other energy is not common outside of simple evaporation/sublimation. I'm only a hobbyist (and very amateur at that), but I can't think of any other "mix two solids to get a liquid" reactions off the top of my head. I'm sure they exist, but they aren't something most folks would be familiar with like creating water (which BTW, requires combustion, not simply mixing the gasses).

@@ender4555 solid-solid reactions are pretty rare in general i think

Ayo i think he talkin about deez nu-

"And I eventually had a perfect ball" - nilered 2022

AaAYYOOOOO

"it took a few minutes of stabbing" nilered 2022

@@Procrastinating.NO DON'T SAY IT

Wow, never knew that guy did something useful.

Thunderf00t, huh? I remember watching him from time to time back when I was in my anti-feminist phase. Those were simpler times.

@@adriellightvale8140 if he hadn't devoted a significant chunk of his time to making umpteen tedious reddit-level videos about why feminism is bad, he might have written more than one serious paper. twat. it's a shame, bc his science content is good.

He more recently made metallic water as I recall.

Can you link the paper? I am interested

NaK with Thallium exists. Some other comment said it

The junior high science teacher in my town inherited his chemical closet from the previous science teacher who had taught him before retiring he got most of his chemicals waaay back in the day when you could get irresponsibly large amounts of things and as part of his chemical closet he inherited a massive block of sodium metal, they won't sell that much to one person anymore but that block has been going strong for at least 30 years and is still VERY large and our teacher always joked that if he retired before they replaced or properly repaired the extremely aged public pool he was taking the sodium and as his last act chucking it snack dab into the pool when it was closed and just letting the chaos happen.... Lucky for the town they are building a new pool and our science teacher who is also part of a hair metal cover band in the city will be spared from his criminal intent

"Decided" is doing a lot of work here.

@@unixnut One can decide to have fun. Or sit around an d be bored.

Truly, a shenanigan.

@@bigbird2451 or they can not bomb their neighbours fool because as i have heard that not very "pog"

-Brutus 44 BC

Actually, 2021

@@MrApple-yw9vp et tu brutus?

fbi open up

-Hannibal Lecter 2022 😅

NaK is being trialled for use in heatpipes of various modern SMR designs. However, isn't the activation of the potassium into a high-energy gamma emitter a problem?

@@Shaker626 hi, I was a corrosion chemist and know next to nothing about the radioactive side of things. All choices are made with compromise in mind. NaK was used in the Dounreay fast reactor which had a short life. I worked on the prototype fast reactor, pfr, which carried on the development, but that research was ended over 30 years ago. I would be surprised if they were considering NaK as their is so little data available whereas Na as a coolant has been researched by many countries. Cheers.

@@jerryhilditch5991 Metal-metal corrosion was always interesting to me. The mechanism is different from that of acids or ions from salt. I'm currently trying to become a nuclear engineer myself so it's all quite cool to me.

@@Shaker626 Co authored some papers back in the day. I can remember one on liquid metal embrittlement but it's at least 30 years ago, the mind goes fuzzy after a while. We published bits and pieces but a lot of it was commercial in confidence. I might go up in my loft and root out my old stuff. I'm pretty sure I've a book published by the US Navy from the 60s on liquid metal chemistry. Off the top of my head I think we published in the journal of corrosion science. I'll keep you informed.

@@Shaker626 liquid metal embrittlement of 9cr steel, still on the Internet, haha

dude as soon as i heard it i was like heee??

Conon's ready sir where shall we aim it just the amno is missing

Wow I heard that as well.

I think that ExplosionsAndFire/ExtractionsAndIre is rubbing off on Nile..

If he wasn't on a list before, he is now LOL

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Nice

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My thoughts exactly, wonder if there is a link between low levels of NaK and hyperactivity or other mental disorders that affect humans.

Intelligent design is a great thing.

@@deusvult6920 no idea what that is but it sounds cringe

@@deusvult6920 yet atheists and agnostics still exist...

Thank God for everything!

I bet he gets followed by the FBI everywhere he goes xD

@@vinnieg6161 I think so too

Very explosive metal balls. About about the most metal thing I have ever heard.

The forbidden brie xD

Cheese, but also the greatest source of Potassium.

Kris get the banana

I recently rewatched the uranium glass video on his main channel and at one point he is drying a uranium solution (sodium diurinate?), but while it was sitting there still wet my brain was fully like "That looks like a damn good scrambled egg" and like...no, bad brain.

The desire to taste strange object could in a way imply that your body needs nutrients. For example, I once had a strange desire to taste my orange colored citrine crystal and my other colourful crystals and it turned out that I was having a vitamin C deficiency at that time.

Most underappreciated comment ever!

Lmaoooo

brilliant

Oof I just made a comment like this D: too lazy to find it now so E don't tell me it's copied

c'mon that pun was so basic

For a while now, I've been meaning to conquer Bulgaria and impose a new world order.

One day the man's gonna say "For a while now, I've been wanting to kill myself and everyone around me"

Hahaaa really sais it all, needed that laugh, thanks 🤣

Surprisingly accurate

I did a science experiment at work once. I superglued my holy socks. The socks started to smoke 😳🤡

its like a bubble

Thank you for explaining, cuz that's exactly what I was searching the comments for!

Not sure this is quite correct. The reaction takes place at room temperature so the water isn't boiling, but it produces a room-temperature gas (specifically hydrogen) so the behaviour is similar.

" heart (or ΔG)" is such a great phrase

man are you speaking some kind of harry potter magic?

He's speaking the language of the gods

What the hell did you just say man

excuse me sir, i speak english

Wow that's really interesting. I know that thallium amalgam (thallium-mercury alloy) has a melting point far lower than mercury alone, but I didn't know that it was a useful alloy addition to NaK

That Danamics cooler was probably the most bizarre CPU cooler ever invented. It's hard to believe they thought making a consumer product filled with NaK was a good idea. If it leaks, even if there's no moisture it tends to form the explosive superoxide. Apart from the danger, its specific and volumetric heat capacities are just bad compared to water, so the cooling performance wasn't even good.

@@fat_pigeon haha yeah that’s insane actually.

It's also the revolutionary title who recently got a sequel on PS4

@@arachnid6028 knack is back babyyyy!!!

@@fat_pigeon so why was it used as a collant? the temperature range?

Papa painting melong sugar high

FIIIIIIHIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH!!!!

You could do it with indium. Non-toxic and doesn't explode. However, you have to be rich as indium is pretty expensive.

@@fat_pigeon not as fun without boom kaboom

are bounce houses fun?

Couple of some of

I have an inkling that he's already lined up a few of the things Randall Munroe described in his What If series.

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@Microwave Transformer nah styro builds a nicoll dyson beam

@Microwave Transformer don’t let them meet it will only end in deadly lasers or a huge explosion

@@narcuk08 the heck?

@@narcuk08 found the self-projecting incel

that sounds like it would create the biggest non nuclear/atomic explosion ever.

@@narcuk08 lol you must have some low self esteem.

since the water turned into NaK... nothing?

I suspect that the kerosene-ethanol solvent was protecting it, because normally, NaK will react violently with AIR, as in it will burst into flames on contact with atmospheric oxygen. NaK just does not want to exist.

Nice one

That pun was abismuthal.

That was potassially the best pun I've read today. Have my upvote.

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Never really understood why it’s called eutectic mixtures, aren’t azeotropes more general?

@@turbotaleggio8425 If they melt/freeze at a single temperature (which is lower than either ingredient) rather than a range, it's eutectic.

Another common eutectic mixture is tin/lead solder

@@abpsd73 Actually the most common solder, 60/40 tin/lead, is *not* eutectic. The eutectic solder is 63/37 which is much less common.

@@amouse6931 Given that 60/40 melts at 200C and >300C, I would say it qualifies. Even if you find an optimum ratio with an even lower melting temperature.

My exact thoughts too

This is why I love chemistry

It's reactive with water, not kerosene.

kerosene, used as rocket fuel, is actually used to store the most explosively reactive metals in it

My mind blown moment was when I found out concentrated sulfuric acide is used as JOIN LUBRICANT/SEAL in chemistry apparatuses

He shall be called _Nile Dark_

'Ambitious'... Hmmm, that's one way of considering the mindset at hand... Nice Film! Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John

You either die a chemist or live long enough to see yourself become a mad scientist

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a villain

y e s

What is that username!

@@adarsh_1 Any guesses?

@@ArghyadeepPal Na. Too lazy to map each letter to each script.

@@adarsh_1 It is Arghyadeep Pal

I almost thought it was Nilegreen for a while

@@vicca4671 hes succubming to his inner demons

Be safe though.

@@DD-kc6hg yeah I do experiments with my chemistry teacher

You create explosive metal balls?😂

@@akshatkuntail5911 Don't drop that Potassium Metal in water I beg you i beg you Unless you wanna have fun with explosions in your school, of course.

"Sometimes I just wanna burn it down, burn the whole school down to the gwound."

Damn... Beat me to it!!! Lol

I see it now

Nile can provide a whole encyclopedia of phrases that sound awful out of context.

I'm guessing having 50% more calcium means that it has 50% more calcium than it had before, not that it is 50% calcium. So if it was 2%, it would be 3%. It maybe is still very low to extract? Idk

@Wolforce Yeah, I understand that. 👍 Still would be cool though!

LOL