A small piece of sodium is dropped into both dilute and concentrated solutions of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. There is no sound or narration. A close up view is shown. This is an extremely hazardous demonstration.
CCA! volumes are organized according to topics in chemistry. Some movies are included on more than one volume of CCA! because they can be used to demonstrate more than one topic or idea.
Viewing Chemistry Comes Alive! Video
Chemistry Comes Alive! uses QuickTime and requires QuickTime version 5 or later and the QuickTime plug-in in order to view the video.
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