Drop a small piece of sodium, about the size of a couple of grains of rice, into ethanol (absolute alcohol). What do you observe? How will you test the gas evolved?
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If a small piece of sodium is dropped into ethanol, it reacts steadily to give off bubbles of hydrogen gas and leaves a colorless solution of sodium ethoxide CH3CH2ONa. Hydrogen gas that is released burns with a pop sound.
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