some one told me that you could make pure sodium by heating up normal salt and running electricity through it?

Question

BUT THE THING IS THAY DID NOT SAY HOW MUTCH SALT OR ELECTIRCITY OR HOW TOXIC THE FUMES ARE IF AT ALL P.S.PURE SODIUM EXPLODES IN WATER BUT MORE LIKE FIREWORKS NOT LIKE A BOMB

Answer 1

You're on the right track. You need electrodes to collect the sodium and the chlorine gas. This is a commercial process so you should be able to find some information about the equipment size and power needs via a internet search. Sodium melts at a relatively low temperature, so fumes can be dangerous. Sodium also reacts violently with water to form the hydroxide and release hydrogen. If you have a tumbler full of water and drop the sodium on it, the sodium will "dance" around the surface with hydrogen gas sputtering out of the liquid on top.

Answer 2

Table salt, sodium chloride, has a very high melting point, somewhere around 1074 KELVIN, 1367 C degrees. The amount of salt depends on how much sodium.The amount of electricity depends on several things. The gases gven off are chlorine gas, a toxic gas used on soldiers in World war one. Pure sodium reacts immediately with the air and as yo said explodes in water. It burns skin easily

Answer 3

The person was absolutely correct. Sir Humphrey Davey ran electricity from a battery through molten NaCl in the 1820's and isolated sodium metal. He was thus the discoverer of sodium. Chloreine gas was liberated from the other electrode also.

Answer 4

The amount of salt depends on the amount of sodium you want to create. I would guess you would need a good amount of electricity as the ionic bonds sodium molecules create are extremely strong. I really don't think you need to know the exact numbers as I don't think you should be creating pure sodium.

Sodium is highly reactive and extremely dangerous.

Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium for some information on sodium.