Artistic rendering of a pure sodium-potassium alloy drop and a drop with a layer of water, in which electrons liberated from the metal dissolved (IMAGE)

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)

Artistic rendering of a pure sodium-potassium alloy drop and a drop with a layer of water, in which electrons liberated from the metal dissolved

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On the left is a pure drop of sodium-potassium alloy, on the right is the drop with a layer of water, in which electrons liberated from the metal dissolved, giving it a golden metallic sheen.

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Artistic rendering: Tomáš Belloň / IOCB Prague

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