Why Sodium stongly reacts with water instantly?
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Sodium is a reactive metal which reacts with water to form Sodium Hydroxide
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but what is the reason behind explosion?
Sodium explodes because it loses its valence electron in water, and when enough atoms do it,they repel each other at high speeds.
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Sodium is a highly reactive metal which have valency 1 which forms sodium hydroxide,hydrogen and evolved hydrogen catches fire
Because the reaction is exothermic
so explosion occurs
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