what happens win a small piece of sodium is dropped into ethanol
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It’ll react with the ethanol (as long as it’s the pure compound) to produce sodium ethoxide CH3CH2ONa (a pale yellow hygroscopic solid)
2CH3CH2OH + 2Na → 2CH3CH2ONa + H2
The alkoxide formed is strongly basic and will easy hydrolyse to sodium hydroxide & ethanol in moist air or aqueous solution.
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