Turning Eggs & Baking Soda into Sodium Metal

You already know when someone has this accent that they're probably a mad scientist.

More proof chickens are the spirit animals of chemistry. 1. Chicken poop? No, Potassium Nitrate 2. Chicken egg? No, reagent-grade Calcium Carbonate 3. Chicken leg? No, perfect HF acid / Piranha solution demo

12:13, this doesn't just look like concrete, you literally made a form of cement which is mainly composed of calcium oxide and hydroxide. Just mix this well with some silicon sand or gravel (adding some silicon dioxide, and aluminum oxide possibly) and let it slowly dry over a few days and you got yourself a nice bucket of concrete.

8:05 As a wise australian once said "goddamn chicken gas"

How is chemistry even real goddamn turning an egg into sodium metal is insane

Thought this was a NileRed video for a moment

Chicken gas mentioned!!🎉

Wait that's not NileRed

Oh no it's a deadly crossive chicken gas

stop doing Chemistry, you are making Atoms unhappy

Great videos as always Nile.... wait.

this reminds me of how salt isn't dangerous, but alone Sodium and Chlorine defiantly are!

Egg shells start of with egg shell membrane skins. They add plenty of nitrogen and carbon in a furnace, and needs oxygen to be burn off. Any remaining calcium carbonate is largly insoulable in water but about 1.99 grams of calcium hydroxide per liter of water at 0c will disolve. Knowing that, one can determin how much actual calcium hydroxide they are adding to the sodium carbonate, and aim for a stoichiometric ratio which would cause all the newly formed calcium carbonate to precipitate out at 100c (time to filter), a wash will clean the calcium carbonate crystals and leave sodium hydroxide dissolved in water. you can then evaporate the water off, preferably in a stainless steel pot to avoid disolving glass and further contamination. Sodium hydroxide monohydrate starts to convert to its anhydrous form at 300c and is completely anhydrous at 350c. Doing this should help increase the purity.

This video just gave me hope for my own try at the menthol catalyzed reduction process. I thought it failed because I didn't see any sodium, but it looked just like your mixture. I haven't gotten around to making my Dioxane but now I believe that I might very well have been successful. Homemade Sodium, that would be amazing.

love the nilered-inspired editing style and putting it through a much more casual vibe. feels more distinct despite the very similar look :D

Cool video about Natrium.

There is an alternative route, which also involves eggshells (a downside is that high temperatures are required for an electrolysis step). React the eggshells (calcium carbonate) with dilute HCl to give calcium chloride. Do the same for the baking soda: react with HCl (gives NaCl). Evaporate the NaCl and CaCl2 to dryness (or as dry as you can get) then dry further in a dessicator. Electrolysis of molten NaCl, with CaCl2 added to lower the MP: Calcium chloride, CaCl2, is added to lower the melting point of the electrolytic cell medium (NaCl) from the normal melting point of NaCl, 804oC, to around 600oC. Obviously, 600C is still a very high temperature, so bear that in mind. Probably, an inert atmosphere (e.g. argon) would be required to protect the freshly-formed Na metal from oxidation at those high temperatures.

Sir, I respect you. Sincerely, PhD chemist

"Dooo da da doo da da daa doo" ... This can mean only one thing! Amature chemistry dropped a new bannger! :D

The way you combine well-known procedures and ordinary precursors to something fascinating and completely new is always so well thought out - I really liked this unique concept from your first videos on. Keep on going like this. 👍 Btw: I guess magnesium shavings will work as well as powder, maybe even better, because with powder it may result in an unpleasent runaway reaction. And above all: shavings are quite easier and much less suspicious to get in the EU.