Then my opinion always is, "If you can't even spell electrolysis, you probably shouldn't do one." ;)
Chlorine gas (very poisonous) is collected at one end,
Also, you absolutely cannot obtain sodium metal from the electrolysis of aqueous NaCl.
Also, you absolutely cannot obtain sodium metal from the electrolysis of aqueous NaCl.
Do you think that i would be responsible enuf to put the detailed warnings at the bottom, but not responsible enough to keep the sodium from exploding?
Finally, to actually have any fun with it (that's what you're aiming for, right? ;) ) you'd have to produce a rather considerable amount (about 100 g is necessary to make an explosion, according to Theodore Gray).
Hmmm!source: Science Madness (http://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=2103&page=2)
listen guys, I had a thought. I am certain that our esteemed progenitors have given a great deal of "energia cogentis"
to the vexing issue of sodium production, while the organic chemists creed is to avoid ultra-high temperatures at all costs, perhaps we are unneccesarily complicating the obvious here.
The DOWNS cell is an apparatus equaled in its sophistication only by its simplicity.
Using the NaCl version seems a little foolhardy and expensive until you factor in the ruggedness and ease of manufacure. And the common availability of materials procurement.
and the skills and techniques learned in the course would be invaluable in future endeavors
Perhaps Cl gas is fairly reactive, but not unnaturaly dangerous as long as you were careful to use good, robust gas-tight fittings.
And I KNOW that your collective genius can come up with oodles of uses for the Cl that is evolved.....HMMMM?