Química en contexto: un accidente químico y la reacción del sodio con el agua Authors Constantino Álvarez Muíña M. Elena López Prada Mercedes Neira González Mariano Pazos Afonso Abstract A maritime accident where a freighter carrying sodium sank, and which caused an environmental catastrophe, was used as the example for three laboratory experiments. These experiments highlighted different aspects of the reaction between sodium and water. In the first experiment, we attempted recreate a small scale version of the sinking of the freighter. In the second experiment, we used a controlled procedure to carry out the reaction and we observed the results. In the last experiment, we tried to find a quantitative use for the reaction. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2010-09-20 Issue No. 6 (2010) Section Treball pràctic al laboratori License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
