Hi to everyone, welcome back to Cody'sLab.
So I have a sample of indium here which has
some teeth marks in it because this is
the same sample of indium that I bit a
couple years ago in my biting indium video.
Just like that.
Now in that video, I mentioned that
indium was incredibly soft,
and it is. Indium is one of the
softest metals, and I also mentioned that
indium was about the same hardness as sodium.
Well, I've been working with sodium a lot
lately and I have to say that's not
exactly accurate. Sodium is so soft that you
can actually squeeze it and smash it in
your fingers. Indium, on the other hand,
you really can't do that with it, see
I am squeezing as hard as I can and it's
barely deforming. So I'd say indium's
quite a bit harder than metallic sodium.
Now I know the first thing that you guys
are going to comment on is why don't you
take a bite out of the sodium because
it's softer than indium you should be
able to bite through it and this is true.
Biting into sodium though sounds like a
very terrible idea because it reacts
vigorously with water and your body is
mostly made out of water. But from working
with sodium as much as I have, I think I
might be able to get away with it so
long as I'm very quick and I mostly
touch my teeth, because my teeth don't
really contain much water.
I am going to recommend you guys don't try this at home.
Usually I don't say that because it's
sort of hypocritical because here I am
doing it at home, but this is one thing that's
rather dangerous.
There's a small possibility of having a
Coulomb explosion going on in my mouth
and that sounds like a very bad idea, but
here we go, let's try it out.
So going to dry my teeth off here.
Let's take a bite out of this.
There you go. A little bit tangy. I think
the splatters onto my face from putting
it in the water so close to me was a
little bit worse than actually biting it,
but there we have it; some sodium with some
teeth marks in it.
That was unpleasant, but obviously I survived. A little bit
tangy, I don't think it caused any damage
really, really turned the very tip of my
tongue into soap, but I'll recover.
So there you go, biting sodium. In fact
Kanyon, you want to come get a close-up shot of me
doing that for the thumbnail? I think
I'll actually bite it, but I won't bite it
all the way through. I'll just kinda put
my teeth on it. Got sodium bits on
my nose here.
Come on, cm'on cm'on cm'on.
Wait for me to get this out.
There we go.
Ok. Ready?
So, here's a piece of sodium.
It is covered in oil, so that's probably helping me.
Tastes hot, and very mineral oily.
There you go.
Now, I know a lot you guys are
probably gonna want me to try tasting
potassium, but sodium basically just tastes
like regular old table salt really, except
a little more tangy. Potassium tastes like bananas,
at least the potassium salts do, I haven't
actually ever tried the potassium metal.
Now, potassium is a bit more reactive
than sodium, so much so that it will
instantly ignite on contact with water.
So I'm not really gonna to try biting
through. I'm not even going to try biting this
at all actually. See, the risk of a Coulomb
explosion is much higher.
Let's cut a little piece of this off
so you guys can see how hard this is,
potassium is much softer than even
sodium is, in fact it's about similar to
what sodium is to indium, see I can just pull it
apart with my fingers here. It's a very
soft metal, in fact potassium is so soft
you can actually squeeze it through a
syringe, if you push really hard, but like
I was saying, it instantly ignites on
contact with water. So here we go
Kanyon is going to do a high speed of this.
See?
I'd rather it not do that in my mouth, so
I'm not going to try biting potassium.
So, there you go, hope you all enjoyed, I'll see you next time.