Anyone here tried to make alkaline metals by elektrolysis using some non-water solvent? I read from one russian book that such thing is possible. They used propylene carbonate as solvent for NaClO3 and got some fine sodium plating on cathode. It should be possible with some other solvents too as book stated that propylene carbonate gave BEST results...

 

Any comments?

oh, it's certainly possible; i know somebody on other forums who had a ball of molten Na(s) shoot up his nose a few weeks ago.

actually, i'm not sure of what to use as the liquid. it would have to have a high boiling point and decomposition point

Here should not be molten sodium and high temperatures. Just slow electrolysis at room temperature.

good call

using a mercury electrode, it is possible to make an amalgam using NaOh soln with electrolysis, this material is also used in metal extraction as it`s one of the most powerfull reducing agents available cheaply and perfectly suited for the job

 

(using a little basic chem data, it wouldn`t take TOO much effort to work out how to distill this )