I've read on countless sites that you can easily make pure sodium, as i'm sure you all have. They say you can make pure sodium by melting table salt then putting an electrical charge through it. HAs anyone done this? if so how do you tell when its done, and would a 9v battery have enough power to seperate the chlorine?

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It's quite hard. And you need an incredible amount of heat to make it. Buy it off of Ebay instead,

No worries, I have a sweet blowtorch and a gas mask, i got it to a nice orange color. The main reason for me asking if this works is if its worth finidng a good steel bowl and if a 9v will work.

No worries, I have a sweet blowtorch and a gas mask, i got it to a nice orange color. The main reason for me asking if this works is if its worth finidng a good steel bowl and if a 9v will work.

A "good steel bowl" will not survive the vast amounts of chlorine gas which will be your new atmosphere.

A 9v will work, but will likely be slow.

If you are doing this under oxygen, you will probably have produced sodium oxide. Gases can reach shit much more easily in churning, bubbling liquids.

Orange hot is not molten.

Your electrode not only has to survive the heat, but also ionized chlorine plasma.

...but... you're on the right track. Don't inhale the fumes, and have fun gold-plating everything.

'n ya might wanna make sure your gas mask is good for chlorine gas. It's just a LIIIITTTLE bit more reactive than organophosphate analogs. Me, I'd breathe through a lye bong feeding into a water bong... and don't let the Cl2 contact your skin.

...or the sodium, for that matter.

do a little research on chlorine before you release large amounts of the stuff and you'll want a ceramic bowl for it aswell and the end product will be anything but pure anyway.

Chlorine isnt too bad, just piss on a rag and breathe through that.

.....you can toouch sodium with bare hands without raping yourself, i've handled it in chemistry, it werid shit you can cut it with a knife, i know about chlorine, piss rag sounds reatrded belive it or not urine isn't healthy to breathe in. gold plated? i'm sure you can find bowls made of something that has a higher melting point than 640 and is conductive.

JoePedo - Why haven't I seen you around before? You seem to know your shit. Thank christ somebody around here does.

I mean, honestly, breathing on a piss rag? Sure, if you still want to die.

CL2 + (NH2)2CO --> 2NH2Cl + 2CO. Chloramine and carbon monoxide, breakfast of champions!

Fucking retard.

Its not the sodium your sposed to be worried about numbnuts.