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Safe Swimming with Sodium

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Publication 12492

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No chemistry class is complete without the spectacular demonstration of alkali metals reacting with water. Safe Swimming with Sodium is a novel variation that is much safer to perform than the standard demonstration of simply dropping a small piece of sodium metal into a beaker of water.