if you place sodium in a container of water you will have a solution of sodium hydroxide right? and if you boil the water out will you have pure sodium hydroxide or will it evaporate along with the water?
also could you make small amounts of sodium from molten sodium hydroxide with out an inert atmosphere (small like a few milligrams small)
does anyone have a link of what molten sodium hydroxide looks like?
http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2001-10-05/chem/column.html This website makes making sodium seem easy is it really that simple?
-thanks