How consumers react to baked foods with reduced sodium may depend a great deal on how bakers manage reaction times. For example, bakers may reduce sodium in leavening systems by replacing sodium acid ...

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 ...

Sodium and water don’t just react - they explode. In this slow-motion footage, every spark and burst is captured in detail.

Alkali metals can react explosively with water and it is textbook knowledge that this vigorous behaviour results from heat release, steam formation and ignition of the hydrogen gas that is produced.

The US Food and Drug Administration has outlined plans to cut salt intake in the country by almost a third in ten years, releasing voluntary targets in 150 categories, which are now up for ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...

Chemists have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of electrochemical energy storage. Chemists at ...

Thermometric titration (TET) is based on the principle that a chemical reaction results in an enthalpy change. During the ...

A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more ...

It was important to read the recent letters that revisited the dangers associated with the use of sodium azide (C&EN Jan. 11, page 4; April 5, page 5; and Nov. 9, 2009, page 8). None of these letters, ...

As the winter season approaches, the likelihood of waking up to ice on your driveway or on the roads is on the rise. Ice melts are the most common solution to this problem, but it is good to know how ...

Using common kitchen ingredients such as citric acid and sodium bicarbonate, scientists have created an edible pneumatic ...