where can i get pure sodium

[[ g h o s t ]]

Ghost the only way I've found to make pure sodium is to melt table salt and then run an eletric current through it and to make sure you don't breath the gas because its pure cchlorine. I checked a few sources and thats what they all say. I haven't tryed it yet.

Right, good luck with that. Let me know when your stove gets up to 600*C, or how you'll manage to stop one of the more reactive elements known to man from reacting with the moisture in the air once it's molten and had the passivating layer stripped off.

[HIM/CKYlife]

that is true but some gas stoves can reach that temperature with some tampering but i need a hot enough flame

[[ g h o s t ]]

Shut up and do your research.

[slypster]

Pure chlorine can also destroy your eyes. i went up a hotel staircase where they failed to tell me that they gased it up with chlorine, it was diluted but it still burned

[thekingofbombs]

everyone watch the new this stipid fuck is gonna kill himself

[Sionyx]

This all coming from the stupid fuck that cannot read dates. No one has made an intelligent post in over half a month, so if the original stupid fuck did in fact try to make it, he would have already been dead and it would have been off the news.

Please do not be a retarded imbecile and reply to threads that have already been dead for a good long while.

[iBrad]

You don't have to use salt, you can use lye, melts at a much more accessible temperature (318 C I believe, but could be wrong, correct me if I am indeed wrong). Of course, using lye presents a greater deal of difficulty, as it is highly corrosive, especially at high temperatures. It's not only likely to burn you, it will dissolve anything in its way, including you. Add that to the number of reasons why you should forgo this. If anyone does attempt this, make sure you do it in an N2 box.

[dwolff89]

*you can melt NaCl with a propane torch*

[Sionyx]

Propane torches (without an oxidizer) can reach about 900F (450C). NaCl melts at 1472F (800C). A propane torch on its own cannot melt NaCl without the use of an oxidizing agent. If you split the NaCl in an oxygen rich environment, the sodium will explode (which may compromise any containment that you may have tried to set up) and there will be chlorine gas swirling around you – which will kill anyone not wearing a gas mask.

Even if you decomposed the salt, you are still dealing with two very dangerous elements. Please, for the sake of intelligence, please let this moronic subject die. If you want to try making this, go ahead – one less imbecile to worry about.

[HIM/CKYlife]

a chemical hood would get rid of the chlorine gas