Many of us gained our first appreciation for chemistry upon witnessing a high school teacher drop a chunk of sodium into a beakerful of water. You may think you know the explanation behind the ...

They must be stored under oil to prevent them reacting with the air or water vapour. All Group 1 elements react with water to produce a metal hydroxide and hydrogen. This is the equation for the ...

MESSRS. C. O. DAVIS and H. L. Johnston report 1 that when metallic sodium is dissolved in heavy water, the diplogen content of the evolved hydrogen is reduced and the diplogen content of the solution ...

The Institute of Medicine, through its Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), as part of the continuing activity to develop Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for nutrients, undertook an 18-month study to ...

The atoms in the reactants are: 1 calcium atom, 2 chlorine atoms, 2 sodium atoms, 2 hydrogen atoms, 2 carbon atoms, and 6 oxygen atoms The atoms in the products are: 1 calcium atom, 2 chlorine atoms, ...