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This video shows what different colors the alkali elements burn.

Strontium chloride, barium chloride, sodium chloride and potassium chloride are burned.

This video was done by YouTube user 'nitrex'.

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The experiment "Volcano" is created using just ammonium dichromate which when burned creates this spectacular volcano effect.

For your information, ammonium dichromate, sometimes known as Vesuvian...

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Sodium does not react easily with oxygen at a room temperature so it has to be heated up a little for the reaction to start.

Since air is mostly oxygen once the reaction starts it gets pretty...

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Since sodium reacts slower than other alkali metals, the reaction is so intense. It just burns for a while.

This video was done by University of Oxford.

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